Confused tbh.
BTOR posts record profits, likely related their chargeable
diagnostic and repair activities on copper access products.
Are they bored of making easy cash?
Or is the end of the cash cow nigh, with every corner now sporting an FTTC cab/the looming silhouette of Sharon White?
Even if ofcom agree and BT pass the cost saving onto the EU and we all marvel at the 16 quid monthly reduction (as if) how are my aged, technology naive, grandparents going to make an anxiety fuelled phone call to the Fire Brigade when they wake up and smell smoke in the middle of the night and find the electricity is off? Let's say the fire started downstairs and has already melted the NTU/BBU. Training/coaching/education often goes out the window in life/death situations.
This is what props up the monopoly and as it stands, rightly so.
Copper access is going nowhere and I don't believe for a second that BT want it any other way unless they've found someone to pay for a UK wide FTTP rollout?