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Nah, they should have done what the UK government did with Project Gigabit

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/project-gigabit-uk-gigabit-progr...

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2026/02/milestone-as-g...

If you were a savvy businessman, you could make a lot of money just connecting customers with FTTH rather than the prior situation. There was an explosion of "altnets" build off the backs of this legislation

https://web.archive.org/web/20151015205446/http://www.alphr....

Funnily enough BT got a bucketload of money from the government and did absolutely cock all with it.

Even funnier the formerly big 5 isps are rated some of the lowest on customer satisfaction despite being actual cash cows for years https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2026/03/new-which-surv...



Yeah vouchers are slightly better than subsidies alone tbh




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