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Originally Posted by Shaun
Surely as the cable is already there all they need to do is re'pull the cables. It's not like they are starting from scratch the ducting and roadside cabinets are already there.
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That's a little like saying that all Thames Water needs to do is patch up the pipework in London. It may be, but according to a programme I saw, at the rate they are repairing pipes in London, it will still take > 128 years to repair all the damage.
It's taken BT nearly 15 years to bring ADSL to most of the country. To replace the "Last Mile" for their tens of millions of subscribers is, AFAIK, a job that is a lot larger, and more costly. I can't see BT spending potentially hundreds of millions of pounds when, for the time being at least, as the various ADSL standards would be a lot cheaper to implement.