Re: From the Whitehall Home for the Hard of Thinking
During a broadband outage last year, I had no 3G signal either, and I actually had to use dial-up via a 56k modem for a few hours (yes, there are still dial-up ISPs providing payg access). Yes you wouldn't want to access netflix or youtube on it, but to log on to my bank and make a few transactions, it was usable. Not having high-speed broadband shouldn't prevent anyone from logging on to a portal and filling in a few online forms, as long as they've got some sort of internet connection.
Now I can't claim to know any farmers or rural types, so if a significant number actually don't have any internet, then this is an issue, but I find that hard to believe. And if that is the case, then we should be talking about getting them online, not about using low-tech solutions so they don't have to go online.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
