I am in a cabled area - but cant have it.
Get this....
In Chesterfield NTL cabled some areas that had council properties. This created a situation whereby people looking for council houses were rejecting some that the council offered because they couldnt get cable.
Instead of being tough with the applicants, they stopped the situation from getting worse by.....
Instructing NTL that they could not lay cable down any further streets, or indeed cross the pavements to make any more final connectiopns to properties, until they had provided cable access to ALL council house streets in the area.
Obviously as NTL knew the take up would be low in areas of poverty etc, they were then caught between a rock and a hard place - so told Chesterfield council where to stick their cable. And now even though there are cables just outside the front doors of many properties - they still cant have it.