BT Chairman Enjoyed Special Broadband Access

The popular newspaper in the United Kingdom, the Telegraph has reported last day that BT, the prominent fixed-line broadband provider in the country, has been branded a ‘disgrace’ following the spreading of the news that its chairman was being provided with a reasonably fast broadband service in a rural area where the broadband service was otherwise unavailable.

The Telegraph reported that the chairman of BT, Sir Michael Rake who lived in the scenic village of Hambleden in Oxfordshire, thirty five miles away from London, enjoyed a reasonably fast broadband connection, while the place was being classified as a broadband notspot, where proper access to internet broadband service was impossible.

The news has, as a matter of fact, invited widespread criticism against the act of the leading broadband provider of the country. One of the critics was the executive head of Abacus Recruitment, Gary Ashworth, who is also a resident of Hambleden. He lamented that he had been made to wait for five years by BT for a broadband connection, while Sir Michael had been enjoying the service despite arriving at the village only an year back.

The news portal quoted Ashworth as saying that he thought it stank of corruption as the internet service providing firm’s chairman was enjoying preferential treatment over the customers that were serving the firm for long. Ashworth also claimed that he he ran a business that probably had set up thousand BT lines.