When running the line checker on BT Wholesale it states for a given phone number (a friends who is supposed to be in a FTTC enabled area) :
"Our test also indicates that your line currently supports a fibre technology with an estimated WBC FTTC broadband where consumers have received downstream line speeds of 7mbps and upstream line speeds of 2.9 mbps".
What is that all about when one would expect 40mbps!