My review here is not directed at BT per se, but rather at Broadband speeds in the UK generally.
I think i've worked out why we in the UK and Western Europe have such crummy speeds. And the answer lies over the Atlantic in the USA.
If you check out almost all broadband suppliers over there, they are even slower than ours or the Europeans.
So what i think is going on is this:
Because it was largely American money that got the world out of the financial schtuck 2 years ago, they have requested that the rest of the world do not upgrade their broadband networks before the Americans have upgraded theirs, thus not given us in the UK and Europe an unfair competitive advantage, as we all struggle our way out of reccession.
I can't prove any of this naturally, but it does seem rather strange that we in the West all suffer from atrocious speeds, while those lucky folks in South Korea, Japan and even Eastern Europe, have broadband speeds that we can only dream of.
This might be a bit of a conspiracy theory, well actually a lot of a conspricay theory, but i wouldn't mind betting that as broadband speeds start to increase, that we in the UK, Western Europe, and the USA will all receive increased speeds at roughly the same time, and of course it will all be due to 'advances in technology'. Yeah right.
If that were the case, why is it that Germany which is sitting on pots of money and no longer in reccession, still has lousy speeds and is no where near installing fibre optic networks.
This is all politics, and a bit of Ricardian economics thrown in to wash it down, all nicely masked under the chocolate topping that is technology.
Who says there are no smoke filled rooms left in the corridors of power ?
Of course there are.

So, based on this, when can we expect fibre optics here in the UK as standard?
Well, given that the Americans will first have to replace about 5 trillion miles of copper wiring first, i would estimate that we will be getting FTTC around about 2050. LOL.