Lets hope Ignitionnet sees this .... 
Now THAT is hopefully starting to sound like serious investment to some of you out there ??!!
I knew about this before today. Not a lot before but I had a heads up
Me, personally as far as I go: couldn't care less. I'm getting FTTP next year anyway thanks to a house move to a new build. The people in and around these cities I'm delighted for, especially the fact Openreach are going to both work in our major cities, the engines of our economy, and are going to work to retire copper. The intention to work out from the cities to the regional towns is excellent news too.
I'm not sure if I mentioned here but I have definitely said that I considered it doubtful Openreach would deploy G.fast nodes deeper into the network to any scale and to that I hold. I will be very interested in seeing if Openreach deploy 'rings' of FTTP on the outside of G.fast coverage areas as they've deployed FTTP, with BDUK subsidy, on the outside of FTTC coverage areas.
Something that is needed, now, is for the higher speed FTTP variants to go through some reconsideration of pricing and, indeed, the 'quality' of service. Openreach are absurdly paranoid as far as upstream resources go and are, in my opinion, allocating far too much capacity per customer to get serious volume into higher bandwidth services. I'd like to see services where 100Mb isn't 'guaranteed' on the access layer, in return for much higher burst bandwidths. the 1Gb downstream service has a relatively low upstream and is really expensive relatively to peers in the UK and elsewhere.
