In reply to a post by pluralist:

In reply to a post by MilesR:

The only downside is the landline issue.
That is, if you want a landline from the provider, then you will be forced to use their router. For the vast majority of residential customers that will be absolutely fine. It’s just something to be aware of.

Are you sure?

Quite apart from the fact that an FTTP install doesn't touch your landline (or need to grab your phone number).

If a residential broadband (FTTC) customer who currently has and uses a landline phone, selects a new package that is FTTP and opts to port / keep their number...then yes it does affect the "landline".
Physically it is obviously a different connection, but it could potentially affect their usage of it.
E.g. someone who has FTTC, then opted for BT FTTP currently has their own VDSL router at the moment and a phone plugged into the master socket ...they would find they then had to use the BT router just so that Digital Voice would work

That's the point I'm trying to highlight

In reply to a post by flippery:

The overhead fibre line contained both copper and fibre. They reconnected copper at eaves and took fibre separately into ont
Maybe that was what installer meant .

Funnily enough I asked about the hybrid cabling, but they (Kelly Group guys) said they don't use it.

The guy who did my install just said that as part of the FTTP installs they're asked to remove the copper line. But who knows whether that's true or not on a wider scale.
Ours are all overhead pole fed and he said at some point (when all homes are moved to FTTP), OpenReach would come around removing the old lines.

As I said, they were from Kelly Group, so I would take it with a large pinch of salt 🙂