Originally Posted by Lucio 
Surely though, you could get fibre as far as the green box at the end of the street and then leave it up to the home owner if they wanted to pay the additional to have cable run to their home, or perhaps have a point to point wireless connection to replace the wire.
Well, yes its possible to do that but laying fibre has a rather large cost attached to it and home useage is just not going to cover it. I think your point about wireless is closer to the mark, I can imagine a point where mobile broadband overtakes landlines. I mean, just look at what happened to the land line telephone, anybody use one of those these days..?