About that fibre roll out...
Until the government and the VOA seriously re-evaluate how fibre infrastructure is taxed, especially for smaller firms, the UK will continue to lag behind and lack progress in this regard...
BT (sorry, Openreach!) get some pretty substantial advantages over competitors from their dealings with the VOA, not to mention their sheer size affords them further benefit.
Unless this substantial part of the cost for any smaller operator is overhauled and substantially streamlined, the smaller guys will focus purely on smaller sections of "infill" and more lucrative apartment blocks, leaving the wider rollout to Openreach and Virgin, who will continue to use network designs like FTTC to ensure they lay the bare minimum amount of glass for the highest number of subscribers.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
