I wouldn&#x27;t agree with that.  I live in a large town (Bournemouth), on the outskirts where I was getting a variable ADSL service of between 0.5 and 2Mbps depending on the weather; my cabling is not copper but aluminium back to the exchange (about 2 miles away), and was often troublesome, and unlikely to be replaced in the near future.<p>I now have Infinity, running at a rock solid 38Mbps down and 12Mbps up, for a decent price (almost the same as I was paying for ADSL), and it&#x27;s been totally reliable.<p>Bournemouth had FibreCity which promised fibre to the home, and 100M&#x2F;1G service.  The original delivery mechanism (in sewers, with minimal digging) didn&#x27;t work out, and instead lots of micro-trenching was done.  It cost them much more than they anticipated, and the company went bust (more than once, I believe), and provided a sub-standard IPTV and ISP offering (I had it for a month on trial, and it was patchy), so while the numbers would look great, there&#x27;s more to it than the raw figures.<p>FTR, my postcode always showed that my area was going to have infinity, but my specific address wasn&#x27;t going to get it, and even though I registered to be told when it would be available, I was never told - it was only bored clicking one night when stuck at 0.5Mbps that led to me getting upgraded.<p>BT and openworld definitely need more separation, however, IMO.