A number of reasons. Firstly its those darn Helsinki teenagers. Telecoms cognoscenti know that the telco world is overflowing with PHDs, MBAs and other very clever people. But the most profitable bit of the mobile phone food chain came from simple text messaging. And none of the very clever telco boys and girls imagined that one. It happened by accident.

But the Government cannot say we are waiting for a group of bored teenagers to produce, as our transatlantic chums are wont to say, the killer application.

The spread of fibre will not come from a killer application but lots of little ones.

One area that is overlooked is building services in general and energy control systems in particular. And much of this will come from non traditional sources.
Possibly men and women from the world of the vegitarian shoe.

But it will come.