Re: @Kaltern @AC
"I know I might be missing the point here, and if I am, I apologise. But TV fibre was laid down back in the 90's, and that worked fine from what I understand."
No, it was co-ax. It was only delivered to areas of high densirty housing. The companies that laid it all went bust.
Well from memory in the 90's (glass) fibre was primarily deployed in the backbone, in part due to it's very high termination and splitting costs compared to co-ax and twisted pair. Hence why the local distribution networks remained copper. I suspect we should be thankful that the UK cable TV networks were deployed some years prior to digital TV and IPTV and higher speeds over twisted pair otherwise the operators may have been tempted to make further savings and deploy twisted-pair...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
