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Ignitionnet · 15-09-2017, 10:23

Good to see the Fail are as accurate on technology as they are everything else. Using a 'city editor' and a 'finance editor' for a story that's mostly about technology, good call.

Openreach offer full-fibre to every development of over 30 properties. I emphasise offer - it's down to the developer whether they take Openreach up on the fibre or ask for copper.

Spain and Portugal do indeed have higher proportions of full-fibre solutions. They also, however, have a lot more of the population living in apartments and, unlike Ofcom, Spain's regulator allowed Telefonica a regulatory break meaning they could keep higher speed full-fibre products to themselves for a time which improved the business case.

As an aside, an indication of how moronic the UK's policies on full-fibre networks are can be found in one simple case - while Matt Hancock and the rest are banging on about full-fibre networks the government is increasing business rates on them.

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Ignitionnet Inactive Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Leeds, West Yorkshire Age: 45 Posts: 13,996	Re: BT still laying old fashioned copper wires! Good to see the Fail are as accurate on technology as they are everything else. Using a 'city editor' and a 'finance editor' for a story that's mostly about technology, good call. Openreach offer full-fibre to every development of over 30 properties. I emphasise offer - it's down to the developer whether they take Openreach up on the fibre or ask for copper. Spain and Portugal do indeed have higher proportions of full-fibre solutions. They also, however, have a lot more of the population living in apartments and, unlike Ofcom, Spain's regulator allowed Telefonica a regulatory break meaning they could keep higher speed full-fibre products to themselves for a time which improved the business case. As an aside, an indication of how moronic the UK's policies on full-fibre networks are can be found in one simple case - while Matt Hancock and the rest are banging on about full-fibre networks the government is increasing business rates on them.