On: Things that Americans find incomprehensible about the UK

[Osmium]

Counterpoint: Fibre has literally just been made available in my area. I just had Plusnet (an ISP wholly-owned by BT which uses BT fibre) install fibre broadband, and it was done quickly and flawlessly. Arrived when they said they would and it took 5 minutes. Speeds decent too (50 Mbps down / 20 Mbps up, though I was told it might take a week to reach full speed).

[hackerboos → Osmium]

To be fair to BT I had Infinity before I moved and they installed it quickly and easily.

My point I guess is that when you fall outside of the A->B route you get tangled in this mess.