Why is Rural Broadband not a high priority

Why are BT dragging their heels getting rural areas kitted out with Fibre??
I live around 5 miles from the nearest town in a small village, for years now I have seen BT Infinity Ads on TV all the time advertising super fast broadband, while we have to suffer with "up to" 8mb that becomes ridiculous slow and tedious to use in the evenings and at weekends, So much so, that I had another BT line installed just so we could use more than one device at a time. I've also spent a fortune on new wiring, faceplates and Apple Airport Extreme routers.
Because BT don't think rural areas deserve better broadband and they would rather keep upgrading broadband equipment in towns I have to pay for two broadband option 3 services per month!
Although our speed tests show that we are supposedly getting :-
Speed test conducted at 5:05am
Download speed achieved during the test was - 6.35 Mbps
For your connection, the acceptable range of speeds is 0.6 Mbps-7.15 Mbps.
Additional Information:
Your DSL Connection Rate :8.13 Mbps(DOWN-STREAM), 0.45 Mbps(UP-STREAM)
IP Profile for your line is - 6.5 Mbps
These figures are only the max of what our lines are connected at, I've never seen 8.13mb down or 450k up, upstream is normally limited to between 270k to 380k, which is less than half that of the rural broadband speed we receive in our house in France (8mb service), that is further from the exchange and towns, but still manages to get 8mb down and between 840k to 1mb upstream..!
I'm guessing we also have a contention ratio issue, the amount of bandwidth shared between users is not good enough hence why evenings and weekends is tedious, and online gaming / streaming iplayer etc is near impossible!
we have no gas, and no fibre. you'd have thought that in areas such as this BT would have got together with British Gas to maximise their customer base!

even though you are 5miles from the nearest town you are still close enough to your exchange to get an 8mb connection speed. your profile should be 7.15mb not 6.5mb and if you maintain connection 24/7 for 3/5 days maybe less the profile will rise automatically
check your exchange and see if 21CN enabled
check exchange here
when was the last time you agreed a new contract? if more than 12months then you should phone the options team and negotiate a better deal as £65 seems very high
options team 0800 800 030
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