BT looks like it is calling a halt on it's speed battle with LLU operators according to it's director of product management.

Rather than spending it's dosh on fibre to the home (FTTH) which it has been trialling since 2004 it now seems that it will push broadband as an "application driven" service like IPTV.
While this maybe seen as some as a defeat, the telco has a point when it says that FTTH is a "UK PLC issue", rather than a matter for the national telecoms network owner alone, especially when considering the cost for such a project and the payback. As Angus Flett, BT Wholesale's director of product management puts it  "If you do VDSL2  then you have to do fibre to the cabinet, and if you do that then the economics mean you might as well do fibre to the home."

So the majority of UK broadband users could be stuck at 24Mbps even when BT's 21CN is fully operational, but many users would disagree with Flett when he says: "I think the speed wars didn't provide value for customers...[they] don't give two hoots about speed."

It seems BT will be looking at the quality rather than the quantity of bandwidth, but then that is the cheaper option.