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Story: O2 may roll out fibre if Ofcom changes rules

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Copper - what Copper?

Speculating about replacing copper local loops with fibre or running the 2 media infrastructures in parallel is somewhat 'moot' for some subscribers in the UK.

Surely I'm not alone in still being completely dependent (because cable can't get round all the local villages either) upon 'aluminium wires' from a post war GPO telephone infrastructure.

8Mb rADSL is a far off pipe-dream - only speed advantage over a modem is the connect time. But it's what I'm charged for.

So where in the UK am I - Outer Hebrides? Bodmin or North York Moors maybe? No - just 50 miles outside London.

if there is no strategy to bring rural infrastrure into this century, I hope losers like me won't have to continue to subsidise faster network connectivity available to those in the fibred _and_ coppered suburbs.

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