In reality there is little stopping any company from installing fibre anywhere it likes, BT, Openreach, Virgin, Cable & Wireless..... would all have to find the same funding to do the job. It isn't much cheaper just because Openreach has a 100 year old network to look after. Many local communities have installed their own broadband networks to solve the problem on their own, they bare the cost as Openreach/BT has it hands tied in what it can charge.
No, but my point is that if the cable network was owned by "CableCo" which then leased capacity to BT, Virgin etc then there would be far less duplicated effort, and I guess government funding could be more closely directed.
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