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This has been touted for many years but it'll be interesting to see how VM actually do it.

I've always assumed that VM (its predecessor companies) would use power lines to distribute cable tv and internet out into the countryside in the same way that I use homeplugs to distribute the net around my home.

But I wonder, when the article says using the power firms infrastructure, they could just mean using the electricity pylons to sling their own cable between them. No digging roads or digging up Farmer Giles' fields. It could be a very cheap way to extend VM's network. And VM could use microwave/mobile transmitters to take the signal the "last mile" into small towns and villages.

But, if VM do actually use the power lines themselves, I would have concerns about how effective the signal quality would be especially when everyone turns on the kettle.