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Internet Street fails to live up to name

A Polish man who bought a house on Internet Street is selling it because he can’t get a broadband connection.

Andrzej Gromek, 43, of Warsaw, said: “I have written dozens of letters to the national telecom regulator. At first they thought it was a joke but then they found that actually it was too expensive to put a line into the street just for me. So I am moving.”

His complaint has shocked the Polish Office of Electronic Communications (UKE) into launching a nationwide campaign.

“How is it possible that in the capital, in a street with that name, there is no competition between internet operators?” asked UKE boss Anna Strezynska.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .