Almost certainly not in an FTTP configuration. BT experimented with that but the problem was that the ONTs were too expensive at the time to install one in each

Almost certainly not in an FTTP configuration. BT experimented with that but the problem was that the ONTs were too expensive at the time to install one in each house. The way that they originally hoped to pay for some of the costs was by running television over the fibre (not internet access - the proposals did have some space for data but it was tiny by modern standards), effectively leveraging their telephone monopoly to become a cable TV provider as well. That's where all the talk about competition and US cable companies comes in. Having found and read some of the reports Dr. Cochrane seems to be rewriting history a bit to fit modern partisan politics. In practice, BT did use something called TPON to run phone lines over fibre to some areas, but this was termiated in the street to analog-only narrowband over copper using hardware shared between multiple houses. This meant that people unfortunate enough to be in areas served by fibre often found they couldn't get anything faster than dialup well into the 21st century. In some cases BT actually ended up replacing this with plain copper runs back to the exchange so that customers could at least get ADSL.