I feel there's a generation of Brits burned the wave of random telecoms companies digging up major roads for years for cable, only for the results to be pretty much useless by the time it's done as ADSL and existing POTS lines could do pretty much the same thing without any more digging.
The words "Diamond Cable" still fill me with dread to this day. They dug up half our village to then offer no service.
A local fibre co here in York dug a cable to all the way my parent’s farm house, about 250m outside the nearest village (and probably even further into the village to reach the PCP), then left the cable coiled up on the outside of their property and haven’t done anything further with it in over a year.
I’ve heard other similar stories from friends in the city too.
It’s almost like there’s money for the infrastructure but not for the staff required to actually run it as a service…
Where as in London, where there is at least one house every 8 meters, they were in and out of my street in two days and now we have constant door to door sales people offering deals.
Smells like they "installed" fibre in York to meet a contract/regulation but they really focus on Urban density. Makes sense for them but not for the rest of us.
I know someone who is still waiting for City Fibre, who dug up xyr road last year, to get around to actually offering a service.