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Originally Posted by muppetman11
As of Feb 2015
BT had over 7.5 million broadband customers with over 2.7 million taking Fibre
The other big ISP's on the Openreach Network , Sky , Talk Talk and EE have over 10 million subscribers yet only around a million take fibre despite all of them actively advertising promotions through their websites , TV and mailings.
Any idea why that is ?
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Sky and TalkTalk have only relatively recently begun pushing the FTTC solutions, preferring to relentlessly milk copper all the way to the exchange to make the most of the equipment they have in BT exchanges.
They can't deliver FTTC for free alongside a phone/TV package and they've managed to condition their customers into thinking that 'broadband' should be either free or cost next to nothing.
BT pushed FTTC hard early on and gained nearly all the sign ups, and their brand Plusnet are essentially delivering FTTC without the added cost of BT Sport so are the 'budget' BT brand.