Here’s a thing – cable TV companies will only lay a cable up your street if there are enough people willing to become customers.

This man – who already has broadband, but does not want to keep giving coin to the Murdoch empire – has found out the hard way.

So – of course – he’s gone to the papers.

Colchester Gazette: Virgin Media say it doesn’t make economic sense to dig up 400m of road just to connect a single house on a private road to the nearest broadband box

Now you put it like that.

And you know who else had trouble making Virgin Media change their mind?

This has been the 100th post on the new APILN website, so of course RON.