Re: How incredibly convenient
A bit like Amazon regards Sales Tax, you can keep fighting tooth and nail with Gov legislation, but eventually you just end up so wrapped up in red tape.
It probably would have been better for BT/Openreach to just agree to start a headline rollout of pure FTTP on lines longer than 500m by copper pair (250m-Crow Flies), instead of gouging older tech Ethernet lines for those business customers (set actual targets, not Ofcom approved averaged wishy washy lame data across both rural/urban, to make rural figures look pretty).
You know BT, you might actually get some Good PR from that.
The biggest problem with G.fast is it's anti-competitive compared to FTTP and it doesn't scale (it's fully sweated copper tech with low upper limits), especially regards upload speeds. Bonding copper lines might sweat things a bit more, but the whole thing just becomes an unreliable mess (in terms of time wasted) when scaled across millions of customers.
If we thought things were bad now (and that Ofcom decision has taken 3 years), wait till "up to" Obfuscated, Bamboozled G.fast hits the real world.
We're heading for an absolute nightmare in terms of the blame game. Sharon White + others obviously don't feel they're paid enough to take on the real separation of BT (i.e. Openreach Assets) they like the easy life too much.
I personally have no faith in "G.fast obsessed" Openreach's Clive Selley, (I feel he has been parachuted in by BT Group, G.fast was his baby) though hope he proves me wrong.
Simply, G.fast plans need to be ditched. It's obsolete technology,