[user104658]

There should be a commitment to get 20+mb (what I would call "functional") broadband to rural areas... getting everywhere onto gigabit broadband is a vanity project with no real necessity. I see very little point in spending billions laying expensive cable to remote areas when it's highly likely that superfast broadband will be able to go entirely cable-free within the next decade.

Most rural areas these days have some great smaller local broadband projects anyway, usually involving over-the-air broadband with a little dish on your roof. My sister could only get 1mb broadband previously (frankly unusable) but now gets about 25mb with a local provider using a dish. It's totally fine for browsing, Netflix, youtube etc. Downloading a very large file would take a while - e.g. it might take 12+ hours to download a Playstation game rather than 3 or 4 hours - but it's certainly not a "necessity" ... just do large file downloads overnight.