Two notes after a foreword: I do not know UK tlc development history and status, so I'm talk in general: - things change, on small scale change is cheaper&fast

Two notes after a foreword: I do not know UK tlc development history and status, so I'm talk in general: - things change, on small scale change is cheaper&faster in mean respect of large scale, witch means that a small country with few people inside surely spent far less in developing and regularly upgrading it's own infra respect of a large one; - private investments on scale NEVER work for the public. With the above statements, seen in the countries I know, TLCs can't be a private business. Nothing against private networks BUT the State must own a nationwide network, so create and maintain it, for the sake of the nation, not following direct profits. In that case copper or fiber does not count: at a certain point in time a planned civil design started to take into account the need of a signaling network for any household and more, so a national plan to create a physical infra for accommodating such network start. After a decade there is enough to see widespread results. A new network start to operate. Then new tech emerge witch can be accommodated with some modifications on the old physical infra (duct etc) and so the State start making changes and upgrade. The overall results are less top performance in certain area compared to pure-market private TLCs development, but overall far superior performance. I does not count much if initial plans was better or not, because they are constantly watched and evolved so there is no such thing "due to the past decision on a certain kind of tech the new one can't arrive much early", it's just "due to a past decision new tech will cost the State much more and we will have a bit of delay".