Ministers have been accused of breaching a manifesto pledge to give every household a legal right to minimum broadband speed after it emerged that 60,000 homes in rural areas will miss out.
The Government announced a new Universal Service Obligation which will give people the right to request access to broadband with minimum speeds of 10Mbps.
The Conservative party’s general election manifesto last year said: “Our Universal Service Obligation will ensure that by 2020 every home and business in Britain has access to high speed broadband.”
However the Government has now said that the policy will not apply to any property where the cost of connecting is more than £3,400. Households will have to...