City Fibre has worked alright around where I live. It was also about a year or so after most of the digging (now a few years ago), but it's been nice to have actual fibre internet (through a different ISP, since they just do the infrastructure).

A local fibre co here in York dug a cable to all the way my parent’s farm house, about 250m outside the nearest village (and probably even further into the village to reach the PCP), then left the cable coiled up on the outside of their property and haven’t done anything further with it in over a year.

I’ve heard other similar stories from friends in the city too.

It’s almost like there’s money for the infrastructure but not for the staff required to actually run it as a service…