So, out of interest, which ISPs did you try that said they were unable to supply an FTTC connection (excluding, of course, TT & Sky plus VM)?

Weren't there a few exchanges in the north of Scotland a few years ago, maybe even now, where only BT Consumer and maybe one other could provide ADSLx? The restriction being because they had paid for the exchange enablement?

The three the poster lists that he can get are all BT Group (ISP) companies

Those would be IPStream only exchanges and fibre is only available where WBC backhaul is available.

So full range of BT Wholesale based ISP should be available, the issue is the more price friendly alternates to the big 4 or 5 tend to rely on TalkTalk Wholesale so if they've not put the fibre link in yet, they won't be available yet.

I think the last post by Mr Saffron explains it all. TT do not have the link yet so the cheaper providers are not players at the moment.
I am only a home user and so was looking for a reasonable price with evening and weekend calls included. BT are offering good value at the moment but will of course increase after the first year.

This side post only started because it was suggested that BT had said they were the only ones who could provide fibre at my location. They did not say that.

I don't recall which others I checked now but I think they were costly in comparison.
I suppose that whoever I had chosen the connection would have been done by the same OR engineer or their contractor, and the same cockup would have resulted, hence my original question.