I've read that twice, and I'm still not sure if you are being sarcastic. For me, those 'public wires' are old and slow - all 3 places I have lived recently. T

I've read that twice, and I'm still not sure if you are being sarcastic. For me, those 'public wires' are old and slow - all 3 places I have lived recently. The government have gifted lots of money to BT to roll out fiber, and BT have taken the cash and sat on their hands. It is an awful situation - allowing BT to sabotage our nation's competitiveness whilst stealing taxpayer money [0]. So having competition on the common infrastructure is indeed good, but the overall system definitely does not work "really well". [0] A House of Commons Select Committee slammed the whole setup - e.g. here: http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/public-accounts-committee/news/rural-broadband-report/ http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/...