Marland wrote:

Wont fibre to the cabinet at least become normal once digital has fully
taken over, the few people who dont
have broadband or transferred to one of the plans that use fibre for part
of the route from the exchange
will fairly small by then and be connected in that manner wether they like
it or not.
With no copper connection it wont be possible to power phones by DC from
the exchange.

It's not clear whether you think that today, FTTC customers have no
copper connection back to the exchange?