PCs gone mad - the broadband white elephant

THE very same day you published a letter from me entitled “Dependence on electricity” (Yorkshire Post, July 2), your front page headline proudly proclaimed that we had a “harvest of riches” – an internet revolution in North Yorkshire. Indeed!

I am West Riding born and bred, living in foreign climes, and I am not sure whether or not you were taking the mickey, but I have never before read such claptrap.

Campers in the middle to a rain-soaked Rylston field huddled over their Calor gas laptops, frantically twiddling their thumbs in a bid to beat Schumacher to pole position.

Nanny goat’s offspring vainly seeking a new hyperlink field for fresh fodder. Do you remember 40 or so years ago when they dug up nearly every street in West Yorkshire for cable television? Remember “Rediffusion”? Hands-up anybody who has now got cable telly?

Now they are going to dig up every road in North Yorkshire to lay fibre-optic cables.

After the £26.4m grant money has been spent, I foresee a dwindling enthusiasm due to the lack of adequate payback. NYCC roads were never paved with gold. My computer won’t go any faster no matter how many full English breakfasts I feed it. I am told it does about 16 thingummies and I’d need to spend umpteen pounds on new gear to improve that and even then I probably wouldn’t notice any difference, and I still have no inclination to watch “telly” on a PC.