I currently live in England, in a (city) area, where it's pretty much impossible to get ADSL. Openreach doesn't go that far. I assume it used to be a TPON zone.

Fortunately, there's a new separate, private operator FTTC network but it requires laying copper under our pavements and gardens for the last 10 or so meters. This also means absolutely no competition -- I either go with this company or I can forget about cable Internet.