Re: Bad move
It's mostly technofetishism. Woo! Fibre!
I get 80Mbps download via BT over good'ol copper. For me, this is fine. If there were 5-6 of me, all wanting to watch different stuff in 4K, maybe it wouldn't be. But I suspect in that scenario, the bottleneck wouldn't be the local loop. But then I also live <200m from one of my town's main digital exchanges.
So with this proposal, to compete the carrier would need to:-
*get into that exchange and collocate their kit
*run sufficient fibre caternary (ie along BT poles) or in BT's ducts
*find (rent) space in BT's chambers at the bottom of those poles to install filter cassettes (asuming PON)
*install their own street cab & power if they're not
*fan out to end customers via more caternary fibre, or BT's ducts
All without disturbing any existing infrastructure, rotting, corroding or just collapsed and full of roots. This will be FUN, in the best Dwarf Fortress sense. It might make it slightly easier to use inter-exchange ducts, or rural customers.. But then there's an elephant that Ofcom doesn't appear to want to overcome, ie the VOA and the rateable value of any competitor's fibre. BT & VM have special deals on that, competitors do not.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
