As I said previously, many ISPs choose not to offer FTTP, that doesn't mean BT have a monopoly. Ofcom certainly would not allow it.
https://www.openreach.com/fibre-broadband/fttp-providers
25 providers ….I don’t know where you were looking , perhaps you need to look up the definition of a monopoly
You apparently don’t understand how the wholesale system works….BT are not a network supplier , they are ( to all intents ) an ISP, they purchase wholesale access to Openreach products , the same as every other ISP shown on that Openreach page….admittedly some are not country wide , but the recognisable names offer service everywhere….same as BT, so it’s not luck , the OR page isn’t the ISP available to myself or my location , it’s the ISP that purchase Openreach access on the same terms as BT and offer retail services over it…BT have never had anything other than the same access to OR FTTP as everyone else…..if you pick a supplier and they are not on that list, or are on the list but don’t want your business, that is entirely up to them .
Openreach cannot offer sweetheart deals to BT, it’s not allowed and they don’t do it, simply put you are wrong in your assertion that only BT were available, even a few years ago when Sky and TT didn’t want to offer access to FTTP, even then there was alternatives to BT.
I think you were given bad/incorrect information which you believed was true. As has been posted that information was wrong and has been shown to be wrong but you keep defending the incorrect information and still think there is a Monopoly by BT
Having previously worked in telecoms, it's very easy to pull the "BT have a monopoly" card.
No they do not - they were forced to split into a service element (BT) and the wholesale element (Openreach). The governance surrounding it are that strict I was told that BT & Openreach employees aren't even allowed to email each other aside from official avenues.
People continuously spread misinformation from other ISPs. It makes customers feel they are caught between a rock and a hard place which they are not. Therefore, in your situation, I'd imagine it's not to do with BT having a monopoly rather the other ISPs simply won't offer what BT are prepared to.
As a customer, how would you be expected to know this? You wouldn't but the point is you do now moving forward so that this "monopoly" rhetoric can be challenged if presented to you again in the future.