Broad Band
There are a few options within the UK for broadband, at the minute I am using virgin (cable) broadband which is very nice and quick but does appear to go down everyonce and a while which is not that good. When I was with O2 broadband it used to work all the time, since it was using ADSL it is not as quick as cable but it is getting quicker now that fibre is getting rolled out allot more in different exchanges to have the slower connections (well I say slow, they are normally about 5Mb) to increase to 50Mb + then that will just improve every-ones connection to the internet which is modern houses is getting used more and more (playing games and internet / watching tv online etc)
For me it is allot better to have broad band than the most other things, I could not live with out the internet.