[Peter Ward]

OK this could spiral into a politik type debate.... but: why should the great unwashed be forced to abandon thier copper wire phone connections?

BTW I'd like this to be technical....not party political.

I for one have spliced more than one phone line in my time due to an errant shovel.

We have co-axial for my Net connection.... it's fast enough for my needs (foreign servers are the main bottleneck) and fortunately has not been severed to date, but again a no-brainer if it was.

Optical fibre.....humm... splice kits are *expensive*

...and as for my phone line I have long been of the opinion "if it aint broke, don't fix it". Hence I am srcatching my head wondering why the powers that be are trying to make it mandatory to have a fibre link to my house.