On Mon, 19 Apr 2021 13:45:37 +0100, Mark Carver wrote:

If/when that gets replaced by FTTP, are you saying it'll have to run
either directly from BT's own pole (and not involve the electricity
pole)?

Not the case here when FTTP was put in. They used the same poles for the
fibre as did the copper and the electricity. Pole sharing is not
unusual, certainly in rural areas.