IT company BT has upset the good folk of an Oxfordshire village by giving its chairman broadband ahead of the rest of the residents. Hambleden, near Henley-on-Thames, is an IT connectivity "notspot", where the length of the lines make it impossible for BT to provide this IT service - regular ADSL broadband. However, BT's managed to find a way to deliver broadband to its chairman using the company's recently announced Broadband Enabling Technology (BET). The technology doubles the reach of ADSL to 12km from the exchange by bonding two copper lines together. Despite moving into the village only a year ago, Sir Michael Rake is the only resident of the village to be granted access to the trial - a move that's infuriated locals who've been asking BT for broadband connections for more than five years.
