Ah....but that is the problem - the time -like over 10 years.
What the "FTTP for all group" never want to discuss is how long it would take before Little Snoring on the Wolds gets their FTTP.
Meanwhile under the current BDUK roll out Little Snoring is getting FTTC this year.
BT has certainly been able to crank out rural FTTP at some speed when it suits them, down here, urban (well, small town or city) or rural.
So while it is not the best technical solution, FTTC does provide the best overall pragmatic solution possible for the greatest BB speed uplift for the most people in the quickest time for the least cost.
Except of course for those who don't get anywhere close to the current maximum because they're already too far away from the FTTC cabinet, and those who may not get any upgrade from what they have until BT decides to do something substantial (vectoring, pair bonding, FTTdp, FTTP)
Yes some loose out - such is life - most villages don't have a gas supply.
The difference being of course that a gas tank or gas bottles can do everything mains gas can do. There's no need for mains gas since the alternative is just as good, the only minor inconvenience in needing the bottles replaced or tank refilled. Not so with FTTC vs FTTP.
The cost (and none of the profit) of FTTP is almost entirely when it hits the property boundary - insurance/wayleaves/remedial work/whatever. In urban areas that might change in the next 10 years - in small rural areas it won't. Anything which pushes fibre closer to the property has to be viewed as progress.
Everyone's situation is different, but around here everyone is either on overhead wiring or it's a new build with underground wiring, neat ducting and whatever. The latter already is FTTP. and so is some of the former
What difference is there for any of these issues in BT stringing fibre to my home from the nearby pole as opposed to doing so for copper? Why is BT somehow able to do it to some premises but not others that are in a practically identical situation? They had no problem doing a fairly hefty re-organisation of the local network to accomodate a new housing development (new copper, lots of pole moves, re-stringing everyone's phone line to the new poles -and notably, that particular new build did not get FTTP), but they can't do that with bits of glass instead of copper?
If I wanted a few new phone lines installed they'd have them done in a jiffy, including with new overhead cable from the pole
There will of course be situations where G.FAST is almost as good and doesn't have the same hassles as FTTP for certain areas with local infrastructure issues, I just hope it isn't picked as the one-size-fits-all solution like FTTC seems to have been