BBC Four & CBBC to close

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And yes, there are lot of poor people around, but who doesn't have a wee bit or Internet, these days?

 People who live in rural areas without broadband for a start. Internet even a wee bit can still be an additional cost.

Rural areas are actually more likely to have better internet than many in urban areas, since copper-based solutions don’t work so well, they had to go straight to fibre to the home. It’s a tiny issue now & it will be virtually insignificant by the time these decisions go through. BT actively wants the copper gone and is going at full speed to get there. But again, the speed is relatively unimportant, you only need a few megs to do this & very very few people are unable to get that even today.

As for cost - BT and Virgin offer low cost broadband to those in receipt of certain benefits, and once again, by the time this decision is implemented the number of households without internet is going to be even lower than it is now