A farmer in the Scottish Highlands pays for two internet connections. One is a legacy copper line — reliable enough for email, slow enough to make video calls a gamble. The other is a 4G router propped on a window ledge to catch signal from a mast three miles away. Between them, he spends £65 a month for connectivity that a household thirty miles closer to Inverness gets from a single fibre line for £25. He is not unusual. He is the market. The UK's alternative broadband sect