Speaking at the Communications Management Association (CMA) annual conference earlier in the week, Ofcom appeared to shun FTTH services as a solution to slow rural broadband services:


The news follows research from the CMA, which found that 41% of businesses are unable to get broadband where they need it. It also follows early trials by BT of similar technology, although they too have debunked the notion of national FTTH. Still, it's not as if many ISP's could afford the investment needed to adopt it anyway.

Unfortunately that means we have to play the waiting game again, but sooner or later operators will face problems as their new content services increasingly run up against the limits of existing technologies. Meanwhile cable rivals have the opportunity to steal a march or two on BT. More @ ZDNet.