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Originally Posted by Gavin78
Testing something on a handful of people isn't the same as testing it on a bigger town or a city. Not if those people they are testing it on are only checking emails or watching the odd netflix program.
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Jealous much? :P
Who are you to say what those people will do with it, just because they live in a small villiage?
There's far more to this than just the number of people served, for all you know there's a node right next to the village that would make the cost of deployment relatively cheap. For all you know, they're testing what the costs of a small village deployment will be in case it makes sense to target other villages instead of large cities. Maybe the small number is ideal for Virgin because it allows them to trial FTTP without having to serve thousands of people. For all you know, it's cheaper to deploy it to this village because there's a lot less red tape compared to some large metropolis.
Either way, they don't just throw darts at a map, you can guarantee that these 10 places have been picked for a reason.