Really? You're going with gas and sewerage. Totally different playing fields.
Telecoms, string a cable and stick in a few cabinets. Gas, very dangerous, needs pumping etc. Sewerage, again massive pumping and cleaning etc. Both of your two comparisons have huge ongoing costs.
BT has a lot of the infrastructure already there they just have not kept up and did not maintain. That is why it costs them so much now. Other players are out for that reason as well, BT already has the infrastructure so for another company to compete it has to put in massive investment.
Lot's of people offering the services yes, not the infrastructure. And what do yo mean not at price we're willing to pay? Did you miss the part where we were doing our own fibre until BT used their might? In our village we are willing to pay but each time BT comes in promising lower prices, if we did install you can guarantee those promises would be fulfilled and we would have paid out for no reason. Give us the guarantee that if we install then BT are not allowed and it would be there in a heartbeat with this "high cost".
Biting the hand that feeds IT
