In 2009, when Jim Irving moved from Edinburgh to Magherafelt, Northern Ireland, to be with his new wife, he brought his small consultancy business with him. But Irving quickly encountered a problem: on some days, his broadband simply did not work — he had moved to an area with almost no internet connection.“The reality was that when I had important calls or meetings, I would head to a friend’s home in the nearby town . . . or I would go to the library,” Irving says. “We were disconnected from th...