Re: 5 years - then another 5.. and another
I have no issue with poor service to non-city areas, there's all sorts of good economic reasons why it's expensive to do and there's a certain level of acceptance that it's hard, even the nordics get that. It might even be possible that in trying to give everybody equality of access we're actually harming the network itself.
My issue and it'll continue to be my issue is we're as a country (from tax revenues) and as individuals (as customers) paying through the nose for very crappy service from very crappy networks even where the economics of FTTH/P make perfect sense purely because we keep using the worst available options for service delivery. Somebody in government needs to get a grip on the actual roll-out of decent service rather than just throwing money at it and hoping the problem goes away because it never will.
It'll take far more money than we're talking about to re-roll FTTH to countryside areas, even with somebody competent pushing it.