You can't teach an old wire new tricks
It is a pain, especially when the semi-rural areas appear to be last served by a fibre upgrade.
It does appear they have wasted £900m on a football contract. Their infrastructure certainly would have benefited over a temporary, short-term bet.
Line rental is also overpriced, considering that they do nothing with it.
I also agree that ALL exchanges should be opened up to other LLU providers, that way I wouldn't have to pay a premium to use another service provider - the industry would then be on a level playing field (excuse the pun).