[Chrysalis]

Of course BT have cabinets, they small but they do exist, my local one is at the end of my main road next to a set of traffic lights and unlike cable cabinets the majority of BTs cabinets do not piggy back of other cabinets they have their own feeds to an exchange, I agree with you on one thing tho I dont expect the cabinets that piggy back to have a fibre feed.. Indeed also I expect vdsl to cost more than adsl but I still expect a 40mbit vdsl package to be way less than VMs proposed £50 price point for 50mbit and it may even be cheaper than VMs 20mbit product.

Congestion, we know VM is very area dependent, when I was on ntl 10mbit I only had full speed for probably under 2 hours of the day 4am to 6am and in the evenings it was horiffic, so although the modem synchs at full whack on cable the congestion is far in excess to what I have experienced on dsl. Some people on VM dont have congestion which is fine but some have extreme congestion. This doesnt take away from the fact that VMs backhaul is now smaller than easynet and smaller than BT, easynet only have a 3rd of customers of VM so probably gives you an idea how undersized it is.