You may, (or absolutely may not) be interested to read these statistics that made up part of the internal campaign about our newly formed Openreach.
We have ....
5.5k Telephone Exchanges
Largest Exchange is Oldham with 45,523 circuits ..... the smallest is Papa Stour in the Shetlands with just 14 circuits.
47m telegraph poles.
98k Copper Cabinets
82k Fibre Cabs
Our copper and fibre cables (length) combines are 3,787 x bigger than the UK rail network.