Is this technically possible?

[Rozzy85]

By that short term exploitation capitalism thinking neither wide spread building of power/telephone lines to houses should have been viable.
Now think how western countries would have developed without those.

One upon a time we did care about maintaining a decent infrastructure but things have been neglected. New power stations haven't been built leaving us with reduced grid capacity and the telecoms network is full of corroding copper. Private companies today have no interest in the long term (neither do politicians, really), it's all about short term gains. They'll just do the bare minimum to maintain and then run off with the money once it fails. If we really cared about future proofing Internet access in this country then contractors of new homes would install Cat 5/6 as standard with a port to every bedroom and not the cheapest Cat 3 they can find.

 

[Caged]

I don't see the point in burning through wireless spectrum to link buildings that don't move around back to exchanges and data centres that don't move around either. Fibre in the ground is the sensible option, people just need to be patient. The FTTC deployment has got a lot of the work done in terms of getting fibre deeper into the local loop and mapping/repairing ducts that weren't known about a decade ago. Stringing fibre onto poles or pushing it up ductwork to individual premises shouldn't be a challenge - though I wouldn't object to this being based on Openreach receiving committed orders for services from the retail CPs before they do so.

 

[jamoor]

One upon a time we did care about maintaining a decent infrastructure but things have been neglected. New power stations haven't been built leaving us with reduced grid capacity and the telecoms network is full of corroding copper. Private companies today have no interest in the long term (neither do politicians, really), it's all about short term gains. They'll just do the bare minimum to maintain and then run off with the money once it fails. If we really cared about future proofing Internet access in this country then contractors of new homes would install Cat 5/6 as standard with a port to every bedroom and not the cheapest Cat 3 they can find.

This is what I mean, electricity came about and we managed to put that into every house.
The telephone came about and we managed to put that into every house.
Now the internet is essential and we should put tht into every house too.