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Problem is the government seem to go on about how faster broadband brings economic benefits to those areas, so getting them done sooner rather than later is seen as good for the economy.  But short of home working, I have no idea how they come to that conclusion.

I mean I'm all for getting fibre to everyone as quickly as possible, but if areas are getting government funding and then shortly after get overbuilt, there is clearly a problem with the assessment of what areas actually need government funding in the first place.

At the very least ANY network that used government funding should require duct sharing agreements, to reduce disruption if there is any overbuild and to pay back those funds.

I mean I'm kinda on the fence from the start, as I still feel the fibre should be nationalised personally then leased out to ISPs - so we don't need overbuild to begin with.

I actually did a bit a business studies at school and it makes me laugh now as the one thing I remember was them talking about how we only have one gas supply and one electricity supply, because its impractical to duplicate service supply.  Yet this is exactly what we ended up with for telecoms.

For the curious I think my ONT is a Calix GP1000g.

He sort of agrees with me, I felt like a lone wolf whenever I said I felt was wrong order to do all the expensive areas first. 

https://youtu.be/fkhE6Wg0myA?si=CUcdOxBYIbU4Roj5&t=2140

Those are CF commit rates Alex.

For whatever reason OR set their's much higher.

However from where I sit I think if anything OR will be more likely to get visible contention as CF are in the midst of rolling out XGS-PON, and OR have the higher takeup.

I assumed they were, they just seem excessively low even for GPON and doubly so that it would be the same for a top-tier ISP vs something more budget friendly.

As for visible contention, its going to be very interesting once I can get OR fastest service to see how peak hours compare to off peak.  Although I have no idea if anyone else is on my PON or not.  Also very odd a symmetrical service has an asymmetrical minimum.

I'll still move to CF in a heartbeat if they ever get round to coming here.  Still in plan but there's barely any roadworks showing up for them any more and it seems no closer than 2 years ago.

All the AAISP FTTP minimum rates are here:

https://www.aa.net.uk/broadband/fttp-speeds/