Re: HS2 or FTTP?
Until they basically crapped themselves during lockdown...
The Openreach FTTP roll-out started well before Covid, in 2009 to be accurate. It did languish for a bit though for which I blame the questionable dalliance with G.FAST. But it was well under way a couple of years before Covid appeared. Covid was a potential impediment not the driving force. In any case one thing Covid has demonstrated is that the UK has a very capable and reliable residential internet service and most connections are being provided by Openreach - although see my second point below.
BT's problems have always been:
* A large and struggling pension scheme.
* A world-class telephony network that was providing most people with everything they wanted. It was harder to justify replacing that with something that was only 'a bit better' and that offered something that only a few people really wanted.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
