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BT are rolling out FTTC/P with taxpayer gap funding now having completed their own fully self-funded rollout.

They have spent as much on football rights as they did on their commercial FTTx deployment's capital expenditure. As of this year they are spending considerably more, and after the football rights auction next year they are expected to spend as much between 2015 and 2017 on footy as they have in total on FTTx network CapEx.

TalkTalk and Sky are contributing £5 million each to pass 20,000 homes which is nothing in the grand scheme and there are a ton of caveats to further deployments.

The analyst reports specifically note that LGI are looking towards acquiring content as their next growth phase.

The network has grown by less than 1% since ntl and Telewest days, and the actual proportion of the population that can receive cable has dropped markedly. Things are improving in that regard as far as VM go but the big money is going to content now.

Companies that are serious about growth go further than new build and completing some partial build that's connected or very close to existing stuff, and have a budget higher than £300-£400 per premises passed to build it.

EDIT: Just FYI you mentioned those projects, including that stuff done so far along with all the new build VM passed 52,600 new premises in the past year. That doesn't even keep their % of the population passed constant even at the abysmal levels of house building we have now.