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Its not fibre. Its copper. Everything is copper. BT/openreach own all of the last mile infra, apart from a few cases in villages and Hull.

Its only the last mile that they provide at any scale. the rest is arranged by the ISP

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Its not fibre. Its copper. Everything is copper. BT/openreach own all of the last mile infra

Incorrect. Virgin´s backbone is fiber and they own their own last mile. BT has been delivering FTTC and FTTH for some time now.

I should have clarified, the vast (and I mean 99%) of the last mile infra (i.e. local loop) is copper.

Virgin use Coax for all its last mile stuff, save for some testing.

Of course the backhaul is fibre. but the local loop/ last mile is essentially all copper.

FTTC is copper. Otherwise we might as well consider DSL to be fibre too.

FTTC is copper

FTTC literally stands for "Fiber to the Curb"

Its fibre to the cabinet, the last mile is _still_ copper, hence why the max real world throughput is about 100meg total (80/20 down/up)

BT have just this week installed fibre to my house. While most of the last mile is copper it is wrong to say "Everything is copper" particularly when you consider in a vast majority of cases now the cable from exchange to the cabinet is fibre.

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