Nah, they should have done what the UK government did with Project Gigabit https://www.gov.uk/guidance/project-gigabit-uk-gigabit-programme https://www.gov.uk/

Nah, they should have done what the UK government did with Project Gigabit https://www.gov.uk/guidance/project-gigabit-uk-gigabit-programme https://www.gov.uk/guidance/project-gigabit-uk-gigabit-progr... https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2026/02/milestone-as-gigabit-broadband-coverage-reaches-90-percent-of-uk.html https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2026/02/milestone-as-g... If you were a savvy businessman, you could make a lot of money just connecting customers with FTTH rather than the prior situation. There was an explosion of "altnets" build off the backs of this legislation https://web.archive.org/web/20151015205446/http://www.alphr.com/news/broadband/391612/bt-aimed-to-get-true-fibre-to-25-of-uk-the-actual-figure-0-7 https://web.archive.org/web/20151015205446/http://www.alphr.... Funnily enough BT got a bucketload of money from the government and did absolutely cock all with it. Even funnier the formerly big 5 isps are rated some of the lowest on customer satisfaction despite being actual cash cows for years https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2026/03/new-which-survey-awards-best-and-worst-uk-broadband-isps-for-2026.html https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2026/03/new-which-surv...