Of 721 respondents to an ISPreview.co.uk survey, 75% wouldn't buy a house - no matter how perfect in every other respect - if it couldn't achieve 1Mbps in broadband speed. More than half would pay more for a house with a faster connection. Okay, I know, ISPreview readers are geeks, the kind of people who spend their days using their fast broadband connections to answer questions about how fast is an acceptable broadband connection. But - still - you're looking at the future... when broadband provision is considered a utility as important as gas, electricity, water. More here.

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