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Unfortunately BT are deploying the tech where they think they'll make money or where subsidy has been provided. Some remote areas are exactly that, so remote that they aren't economical even with some level of taxpayer subsidy and that subsidy is better spent covering more people for now.

As someone who received considerably less than 2Mb in a suburban area and had to campaign to get FTTC I can to an extent empathise, though not entirely as our having to campaign in the first place was a BT mess up rather than being extremely remote and expensive to service with no chance of BT making their money back and thousands of pounds per premises being required for NGA coverage.

Vectoring... the only field trials appear to be on Huawei DSLAMs, ECI require hardware upgrades to support it. That said and bizarre as it may seem that wouldn't actually be that big of a deal, the DSLAM in the cabinet is a relatively small part of the costs.