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Interesting. Link?

My parents live in a tiny village in South West England where there is no mobile or terrestrial TV.

Certainly. You can find more at http://www.marykirk.com/

I became aware of the project because it's being driven (at least in part) by a former colleague in the IBM (Lotus) Notes and Domino development community, "Wild" Bill Buchan. You can find him at http://www.billbuchan.com/

This is fixed wireless internet access, rather than a local GSM network. It's very unlikely that Ofcom would licence a small local mobile network.

That's the starting point, and one has to start somewhere. (I think the main hope is to shame someone into providing service, but they'll build what they can't get.)

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