In reply to a post by mikejp:

It would appear to me that FTTrN is the obvious way to go.

Openreach do not deploy FTTrN, it may have been considered several years ago but never deployed other than maybe a trial.

In reply to a post by mikejp:

What is the policy on these County funded runs? Is there any requirement for the (publicly funded) run to be 'extendable'? "

I have been lucky enough to have seen a BDUK (local county funded) tender document and other than specifying the target properties it says nothing about the type of delivery solution (although recent phases have tended to be solely FTTP). There is nothing in the document about making the solution extendable as there is nothing to say it must be FTTP.

That disagrees with the link

In reply to a post by mikejp:

That disagrees with the link

That link was from 1st Sept 2014, more that 5 years ago and a lot has changed.

Edit: There are over 4.3 million Openreach DP's in the UK, if they were to ever consider deploying FTTPrN that's the type of number of remote DSLAMS they would need to install, compare that with only 85,000 PCP's you can see why they only took the fibre to the PCP for VDSL (aka FTTC) and thats not even considering the extra issues including providing power for FTTPrN.

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Post deleted by candlerb

FTTrn as most people are talking about is dead, but some VDSL2 cabinets (and some may be the small 16 line units based on premises covered) are now covering less than 50 premises.

The equation as to whether to do FTTP or VDSL2 depends massively on the cost of the power and how dispersed properties are.

NOTE: The VDSL2 seen going live today has probably being planned for 12 to 24 months.

BDUK as in DCMS will not sign off on any new contracts unless it is full fibre.

DCMS does not sign off on new BDUK contracts now unless full fibre. So while what you say was the case for older tender and contracts is not the case for stuff signed very recently.

I did mention exactly this as one of the first replies.

In reply to a post by Zarjaz:

I did mention exactly this as one of the first replies.

I know you did Zarjaz but sometimes people need to keep being reminded

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

FTTrn as most people are talking about is dead,

Totally agree that's the exact point I have been making to the OP