A couple who want a broadband connection for their home and guesthouse business have been told by BT it will cost £45,000 to have it installed.
Ray and Frei Walker have managed with an old 'dial-up' service for the last nine years at their detached Victorian home in Dufton, Cumbria. But when they decided to change it up for high-speed broadband they were hit with the massive quote from British Telecom.
The company said the high price is to cover the cost of new equipment which it admits could also be accessed by others in the village.
At present there is BT broadband access for the 150 villagers in Cumbria but the company says there is no more capacity for new users. . . .
. . . The Walkers' home in Cumbria is just ten yards from a telephone pole next door to other residents already with broadband.
Ray, 60, said: 'It's a farce, and obviously we're staggered. We don't have £45,000 and if we did we wouldn't spend it on this.'
They say the slowness of the dial-up service is affecting their business and the work of Mrs Walker and their daughter Megan who are both teachers who need to access resource material on the internet.
'We just want the same c**p broadband service as everybody else in the village but BT won't even let us have that.'
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