Given the Scottish Government's Reaching 100 thing, there could, just possibly, be the chance that we might see some faster flavour of internet access in Heasta, the village on the edge which I live, itself.
What, if anything, is the chance then that if a cab of some sort is parked in the village, that FTTP will be available? Are we better to hope for things to be delayed, so we have a reduced risk of getting FTTC offered not FTTP? How does it all work?
Another ignorant question : is there such a thing as FTTC and FTTP deployment in close proximity? Or a load of properties being supplied with FTTC while one, maybe a business, asks for and gets FTTP at the same time without a lottery win or being done with completely independent infrastructure?
One final thing: what radius do planners aim for round FTTC cabs? Here there are very few houses - I am guessing at 25 so in total. I am trying to count them in my head without much success. I have not been out of the house, let alone down the village, in a few years and I have not seen the new houses. If you look at the map, you can see that the village is spread out along a line say 1300m long in a ribbon development, all along the minor road, from me, the first at the very top, down to the shore. With FTTC they would have to decide whether to spend money to deploy more cabs to keep the radii down, but for such a tiny number of properties, and they would make no more money per month from it.
Would that be a fortuitous argument in favour of the planners choosing to do the right thing and going FTTP instead because then there are no radius problems?