Also all those articles about more speed from copper don't go beyond 100m (ethernet distances) or involve pair-bonding copper lines, which means having multiple physical telephone lines to each premises. Which is expensive, inefficient and in many areas not even possible. At which point, the very moment you are sending people out to start trenching cables into the ground, you are wasting money if you are not putting fiber optics in.
You might note that the Australian recently ran an article crowing about how they deployed hybrid solutions to a big apartment block, when in reality it was simply the MDU solution of FTTH - you trunk in fiber lines to the central switchboard, then run ethernet using 4-wires of the existing phone cabling. It delivers 100mbit, but you haven't escaped the problem of needing a fiber network to connect it too.
You might note that the Australian recently ran an article crowing about how they deployed hybrid solutions to a big apartment block, when in reality it was simply the MDU solution of FTTH - you trunk in fiber lines to the central switchboard, then run ethernet using 4-wires of the existing phone cabling. It delivers 100mbit, but you haven't escaped the problem of needing a fiber network to connect it too.