> Here too, it's only 'cable' that's not so common or perhaps not available here any more. I don't know why really but was never as popular here even for TV I d

> Here too, it's only 'cable' that's not so common or perhaps not available here any more. I don't know why really but was never as popular here even for TV I don't think, mostly either satellite or not. I think cable TV ended up being too expensive to build out. In the US it tends to be above ground on utility poles (which I think are also used for electricity) while the UK required trenching. This slowed the rollout and satellite TV (which carried the same channels) ate their lunch. We could have had fibre much earlier had BT been allowed to roll it out but Thatcher wanted competition. https://www.techradar.com/news/world-of-tech/how-the-uk-lost-the-broadband-race-in-1990-1224784 https://www.techradar.com/news/world-of-tech/how-the-uk-lost...