> the sheer reliability was legit 5-9s

That made me think about mine...

a) FTTC:

25 months and only outages were 17m36s, 47m7s, 31m22s gives ~99.991

b) FTTP:

16 months and a single 40m11s outage gives ~99.994

(Both using 30 day months, the answers remain the same to 5sf even if I calculate the durations more accurately.)

I'd happily take 4 nines for residential broadband.

> I don't legally fully understand how small companies ended up getting lots of money from the government for FTTP

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/project-gigabit-uk-gigabit-progr...