IT is encouraging that BT is finally accepting that people in the sticks need broadband access (June 4); but why are they discriminating against us in the first place?

It's now my fourth year running an independent financial company.

We spend at least three hours daily on the Internet at a very slow rate of 56kbs (if we are lucky). I can only dream that one day BT will see the light and realise that four miles from the centre of York is not a remote location.

Graham Carver,

York Financial Management Ltd,

Martin House,

Barley Rise, Strensall, York.

Updated: 12:47 Saturday, June 07, 2003