I'm well aware that Texas is bigger than the UK; and I'm also aware that Comcast is far bigger than VM. I also said 'probably' a mistake, perhaps Comcast is ri

I'm well aware that Texas is bigger than the UK; and I'm also aware that Comcast is far bigger than VM. I also said 'probably' a mistake, perhaps Comcast is right in doing this as maybe they have split the CMTSs aggressively and the cost of 4.0 is much lower for them than VM. The other issue that VM is facing is energy costs which are much higher in the UK than the US. Coax requires a lot more power than (XS)GPON; which is pretty much all passive and therefore cheap to run. Regardless, the long term future is going to be FTTH, not coax.