In France, there is not FTTC, ... they're investing in real Fibre to the Premises.
And how do you sensibly deploy FTTP? Give every house their own individual unbroken fibre directly to the exchange, some miles away, or only have individual fibre's for the last mile, joined to fibre's from the exchange in a street cabinet?
The UK government with BDUK, deliberately went with FTTC because it gave the greatest return for the 'smallest' expenditure (ie. it was faster to deploy fibre to ten's of thousands of street cabinets which would mean that more properties would benefit from a speed improvement sooner) and provided the branch infrastructure necessary for a (much slower and costly) FTTP deployment.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
