EO lines are not always short, they can serve properties which are too far from the exchange for VDSL to work, unless of course the cabinet installed closer to the EU. Which I suppose is possible, just depends how the lines are routed.
Absolutely ....... there's one patch (Bolton-By-Bowland) that has a totally EO service, some premises (mainly farms) are 12/13Km away from the Exchange.Caveat: It's been 3-4yrs since I worked there so things may have changed ?
It was nothing to do with you, TickMike, it's just that all PMs were disabled completely, for some reason.