How can I get faster broadband in a rural area?

Broadband is slow on June's farm and BT wants 16,000 to install something faster. What are the options?

We're a rural family of six with three businesses on site and we have three landlines in order to be able to use broadband. It is a disaster - usually less than 1MB, peaks occasionally at 4MB - and sometimes the kids have to go to the village to do homework.

Why isn't BT forced to enable rural homes with the same deals that city people get? BT wanted to charge 16,000 to connect us!

BT isn't forced to offer rural homes the same deals as city people because - as your 16,000 quote illustrates - it would cost too much. BT is busy extending its high-speed network to rural areas but the British government, via the DCMS's Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) scheme, and local authorities are contributing to the cost.