Er...haven't you missed a 'not' out there somewhere?
Nothing new there, then.
I sympathise. I live in one of the few parts of England that, until a few months ago, was still suitable for putting up an astropnomiacl telescoe and being actually able to see stars, rather than a haze of orange light spread uniformly acrssoss the sky.
Until some merchant banker decided to 'upgrade' an old cottage to resemble a hollywood shag pad and create something akin to a supermarket car park in front of it, complete with floodlights.
If you happen to be visting with a silenced subsonic rifle, there is excellent shooting to be had nearby...rabbits as well :)
I would not worry TOO much. I have dome a few cost studies
as part time consultant to a small UK broadband company.
The domianmnt cost to providing broadband is teh lats mile circuit and associated equipment. ADSL and cable works because the phonelines are there, but still need a piece of termination equipment per subscriber. Power companies ar faced with diminishing margins, not onl because they have ripped off most of them into directors pockes, but because there is an impending energy crisis, made rather worse by the ecent actiuons in teh middle east.
Leveraging installed badse of power wires looks superficially attractive, but actually there is a beter way to get broadband to usrs, and that is distrubuted microwaves: Technology and the 5Ghz spectrum are JUST becoming avaialable. Cel phone towers that already exist are suitable co-location points and already have data power and masts avialable. The total available bandwith theoteically exceeds that aviailable to any wired technology, apart from very very high quality cable, and there is only a single piece of kit needed to serve multiple subscribers.
Its likely that most rural broadband needs will be met by this technology in a few years, and power line transmission will be stillborn.