Residents of an isolated British village have decided to install their own superfast broadband, bypassing both BT and Virgin who had refused to connect them.
The Rutland village of Lyddington was considered not profitable enough for fibre optics by the big providers, leaving villagers and local businesses unable to get a decent broadband connection.
However, in a joint effort with a local IT company residents have now created their own telecoms provider, Rutland Telecom, which provides access speeds of up to 40 megabits per second.
It comes as the governement was recently forced to abandon its tax on fixed phone lines to pay for rural broadband.
According to the BBC, there are currently around 40 other community broadband schemes which are now also laying their own fibre networks.
