Unless VM have a fortune teller on the staff there is no reason to think fixed line is going anywhere any time soon.
More likely is that VM don't want to spend the cash and wait to make the returns alongside some regulatory concerns.
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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq
Perhaps. But I'm in the 12.5million-ish premises where VM haven't bothered providing any infrastructure at all, and BT FTTC is far better than the only VM option of ADSL2+ (and even that has been mostly withdrawn)
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Well VM have hardly built anything. Doesn't change that BT's network is a steaming pile of crap almost everywhere they haven't had public money handed to them, or that their headline download speed is a joke compared to VM's with no real room for them to go faster.
No idea why you are excusing BT. You and I are in Openreach monopoly areas and they are gladly serving up a service delivered as cheaply as possible because of it. At least VM have responded to competition, BT won't even discuss delivering faster services unless someone else is picking up the bill.
Swisscom spent more in a year in a served area the size of Greater London that BT did in the entire UK in 3, and at current spend levels VM will have spent as much on upgrading their existing network in 4 years as BT did building their entire Next Generation Access network per home passed.