Re: Pointless G.fast...
I can't remember the full details, but it has been reported on here and other sites more than once (I remember at least 2 about small villages). A newcomer offers to rollout to an area (e.g. a village) OR have determined to be too expensive/not profitable enough, or the village decides to make a "community" broadband deployment because OR refuses. The rollout is completed, and OR suddenly decides it's worth their investment, rolls out FTTC and undercuts the newcomer/community project by a decent margin. Most consumers are lured away by lower prices, and the newcomer/community project can no longer make enough to cover the massive initial investment (which OR doesn't have due to existing infrastructure and economies of scale).
Biting the hand that feeds IT
