In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

Perhaps the answer is for people to stop buying these homes, or if a builder promised good Internet for lawyers to earn their money

Or as what has happened with the new build site I live on, VM have cabled and not provided enough capacity so in the evenings their 200 Mbps Vivd connection runs at ~ 1-3 Mbps if you are lucky and cannot stream anything. Openreach provided twisted pair is too far from the exchange so only runs at around 2 Mbps even though the feed for the site passes a fibre node (as all near by existing cabs are FTTC) they could have installed either FTTC or FTTP. 500 homes and nearly all with VM so Openreach have lost a lot of easy money!

And there is in lies an issue, if Openreach is nationally as bad as the headlines, then why are others not rushing in to cash in on the billion pound bonanza...

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

Perhaps the answer is for people to stop buying these homes, or if a builder promised good Internet for lawyers to earn their money

If I ever buy a new home again, I'll certainly be checking what broadband is available first.

In reply to a post by dave2150:

We'll only get new fibre networks in the UK once the country is embarrassed enough to roll it out.

Its more likely to turn up when people accept the need to pay for it. C'mon ... who can't afford £1,000?

While we are unwilling to shell out, we really have to accept the risk factor that commercial companies are willing to apply. That's going to be a lot less, £200 - £300.