BT has hinted that it could bring fibre to households and businesses to replace the antiquated copper and aluminium lines.

It's retail chief Ian Livingstone said that the telco "remains very interested in further expanding the speed of access for customers, whether that be through faster copper, fibre to the home, [or] fibre to the cabinet". Originally BT's stance was to distance itself from investing huge sums of money on the project, but recently it seems to have come to realise that it's not a question of if they will, but rather when.

This maybe due to pressures from within government, ahead of the forthcoming Broadband summit later this year, which will discuss the the direction the UK will take to avoid being left behind in the broadband race, and to address if there was a case for public sector investment in the new infastructure.