In other news
It's cheaper to run fibre to the house and it'll go longer distances than trying to force Gb down voice-grade twisted pair.
Even if Gb over voice worked at slightly longer distances the odds are pretty good that it'd turn to shit as soon as there were more than 1 or 2 active circuits in a cable, for the same reasons that VDSL does.
The same thing would happen in a "dense environment" (the shopping centres,. etc etc mentioned, at much higher cost than just pulling an ethernet cable )
This has become a solution looking for a problem. Unless these things are small enough to fit in a street jointing box AND be powered via 48V @50-100mA over twisted pair AND be fed by fibre, they simply aren't viable - and if you have to run fibre up the street to feed heads spaced every 50 metres you might as well run it into the customer premises at a lower overall cost.
If they can scrap copper as they go (and not have thieving contractors making off with it), openreach might even be able to turn a profit as well as making the network less attractive to midnight cable rats
Biting the hand that feeds IT
