Good news everyone!

At least this gets the UK moving in the right direction (a good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow), and the investment, wherever it comes from, will be a boost to the technical and engineering sector in the UK who will be doing the installation.

Yes, it would be nice to say "every home in the UK will get fibre", but that's a bit unrealistic in the current economic climate; better to get moving on a feasible and affordable upgrade project and deal with the rural areas (where I live, by the way) as and when the technology and cost issues can be overcome.