Or even: how do we get Virgin Media onto the rest of the UK's soil? Their network coverage, being made up of piecemeal local networks built in the '80s and '90

Or even: how do we get Virgin Media onto the rest of the UK's soil? Their network coverage, being made up of piecemeal local networks built in the '80s and '90s that have slowly merged and been taken over until they eventually became one company, is rather sporadic. They cover some towns and not others, and I even know of some people who have Virgin cable access down one side of the street and not the other! They don't appear to have any plans to cable any further areas on top of their existing coverage. So while it's fantastic competition in cabled areas, in much of the country BT still have carte blanche to continue their half-arsed "let's perpetually do a trial here and a pilot there and never actually launch anything" approach to fast broadband.