Letter to the Editor: I would like to take this opportunity to add to Patrick O’Brien’s recent articles (Frankly Speaking, Cambrian News, 14 and 28 September) about BT/Openreach.

A few months ago, BT/Openreach finally started to install fibre broadband in Talgarreg. However, having reached that part of the village around the Glan yr Afon — the tavern — they stopped.

Why? We were somewhat surprised: had they run out of cable? Turned the wrong way when leaving the pub? Lost the street map of Talgarreg?

No of course not: they had simply managed to connect 85 per cent of properties — whether the occupants wanted fibre broadband or not — and that in BT/Openreach’s opinion, equals 100 per cent based, I surmise, on the UK’s Government plan to have 85 per cent of the UK connected. Contact with BT/Openreach concerning this omission together with their plans to upgrade the existing copper wire system to Digital Voice in the near future, resulted, metaphorically, in a shrug of the shoulders and that it is not their problem.

So much for bringing Wales into the 21st century.

Michael Davies

Llandysul