I'm going to be a little harsh in this post. But its like the good friend not sitting around while his friend makes a mistake.
I hope BT/OR do well and keep moving forward as when they deliver services they have a good record. Other FTTP companies have little track record so it is still a gamble to go with them.
I think Ofcom should move away from focusing on BT/OR and instead start including ALL network operators in to the mix. There are instances of terrible practices by VM yet go unpunished and even uncommented on. I doubt BT/OR would be 1. allowed to get away with locking only their product to use on their network, and 2. get away with using a sub-standard modem for so long without them being told to improve it. A similar thing with the speeds, promising 300MB speeds yet people only getting under 80MB (or less). I've seen no comment from Ofcom about this. Not just picking on VM btw. These other FTTP providers need also bringing in to scope too.
I find it interesting when FTTP is mentioned to OR directly they never mention ofcom as holding them back. But whatever the situation is with Ofcom BT/OR are still a business and they are obviously making a lot of money from their copper network, and thats the reason they (more the BT side than OR) are reluctant now to change over. I mean blaming their customers for holding them back is a bit lame. If they want to put up fibre then do it.
If I was a shop keeper and I sold banana's and all my customers liked the product. Then I wanted to start selling bunches of bananas that are higher quality, even though some customers might only like buying 1 banana at a time, I wouldnt let that stop me selling bunches of banana's.