Sky have had the systems and processes in place for years.

Openreach seem happier to spend more on operational expense than capital, which is their call. Given the strategic decisions made with regards to FTTP earlier maybe safer to stick with the familiar unless necessary.

Sky are a TV company that offers broadband to improve retention rates. They have no motivation at all to push Openreach in this regard.

TalkTalk have a business model that leaves them disinclined to purchase FTTP. They are on life support and waiting for someone to buy them.

It is quite bizarre, though, that Openreach is portrayed as risk averse but is using bleeding edge technology in a bleeding edge manner with zero upgrade path for the foreseeable to save money. Infrastructure permitting PON from the big Huawei DSLAMs delivered on demand would've seemed a plan, assuming it's feasible and the monthly charge isn't ridiculous. Maintains usage of the investment placing the cabinet, carries no distance caveats, well proven, mass market technology.

In reply to a post by sandcastle:

To put the question another way: Does BT's ONT have a unique address? Leading on from there: what does this aspect of one's identity look like? And is there any possibility of the ONT being hacked?

Customers are mapped to their ISP via stacked VLANs. Telephony uses a dedicated VLAN on the service. Physical access is required to the ONT to carry out any attacks as its management plane is not reachable from the Internet.

You would need to steal its serial number, flash it onto your own ONT, then connect to the same port on the OLT, as the ONT is provisioned to a specific port.

In reply to a post by sandcastle:

To put the question another way: Does BT's ONT have a unique address? Leading on from there: what does this aspect of one's identity look like? And is there any possibility of the ONT being hacked?

AIUI BT use a Passive Optical Network where the same signal is split and sent to a number of receivers (ONT) which then just take the part they want. To do this they must have some sort of identifier. If you want to know more you could google for PON. I think for a hack you would need special hardware and the resources ofthe likes of GCHQ to defeat the encryption.

In reply to a post by Ignitionnet:

In reply to a post by Zarjaz:

Which raises the usual question, why aren't the LLU suppliers buying into the Openreach FTTP products ?

They aren't available widely enough to make it worth the CableLink.

Haven't Openreach recently announced that they will offer CableLinks that carry both FTTC and FTTP traffic, rather than CPs needing dedicated FTTP CableLinks?