I’m not calling the copper bit fibre, I’m calling the fibre bit fibre. And it is the fibre bit that makes the difference, between circa 2.5 Mbps and circa 25 Mbps. Granted, the copper bit helps too being vdsl, but even if it were just adsl, the fibre bit still be having a massive contribution, reducing the length of copper from several miles a few hundred hards.
Another consideration is, my neighbour has his house on the market. Potential purchasers are alarmed at his 2.5Mbps downloads and enquiring “isn’t fibre available?”. They ask that question to distinguish from other properties and villages that do not have Fibre at all, not to the home and not even to the village. I have no hesitation in telling him to answer “yes, we have FTTC fibre to the village, Mr Muddle next door gets over 20Mbps”.
I’d far prefer that the answer was “Mr Muddle has FTTP”, or “... FTTdp”, or “..FTTR” of course. But for now, “Mr Muddle has FTTC” is an accurate and helpful answer. In each of these cases of course, there is ‘F’ as in ‘Fibre’.
But I don’t expect to persuade anybody here, just reiterating my own firmly held opinions.