97% of the problem is BT
BT should have been broken up years ago. As a dominant provider they have become masters at the art of incremental roll out. Which means they never introduce new technology, which may bring about higher capacity, until they have extracted as much return as possible from existing technology. To do so would simply undermine their ability to milk the market in as many stages as possible.
Which is why they continued selling dual POT lines, one for dial up and one for voice for so long, whilst much better solutions were available in the lab. Even when ASDL was finally introduced they still tried to restrict its use to a limited number of users and crippled its speed.
If they had their way they'd roll out minimum broadband incrementally as 2, 3, 4, and up Mb/s. Waiting at each stage until the market had flattened off, and each new stage would make the previous stage equipment obsolete.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
