Rural broadband: why it's so hard to do

Richard Morse, group technology executive at Dimension Data subsidiary Plessey, says there is a desperate need for more fibre infrastructure in rural areas because microwave technology is simply not good enough to support the sorts of speeds and latencies that consumers will demand from LTE networks, which will eventually offer download speeds in excess of 1Gbit/s.

"When you start thinking about how you're going to get that data back from multiple towers to a central location, you realise that new [fibre] infrastructure has to be built," Morse says.

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