TBH, Veloman, as soon as I can bin terrestrial BB I will. In the one spot in the house I can get a 3G signal, I can achieve about 5mb/s download speeds. That's usable. At Heathrow the other day, on 4G, I saw 35mb/s plus. It's likely that 4G will reach my home before BT gets the wired BB up to the government's minimum 2mb/s standard (it's not even in the long-term plan for my exchange). BT is not interested in the rural market and would dearly love to ditch it. I will happily assist them by fucking off at the earliest opportunity.
I'm not even properly rural, just on the wrong exchange (ie not the nearest one), thanks to a quirk of history. The green cabinet we're connected to is fibre-enabled, but because of the distance between us and the cabinet, they won't make it available to us, and because there's only a dozen or so other houses in the same boat as us, they have no interest in rectifying the situation. Unless the requirement to supply broadband is changed from 97% to 100%, we're unlikely ever to get decent broadband. So much for the free fucking market.
Even more galling, they've installed fibre all the way to the small business park up the road - a matter of a couple of hundred metres away - so if they put a new green cabinet in there, we could in theory get a very good speed.