While we have come to expect environmental issues to be sidelined at US events, we expected more from last week’s London-based Connected Britain 2022, where Faultline observed that sustainability was not one of the headline takeaways. Although positive progress can be gleaned from a sense that sustainability issues were subtly underpinning most discussions during the two-day conference, boding well for future iterations of Connected Britain. The primary talking point – fiber penetration statistics and how best to improve them – was occasionally peppered with talks of the environmental benefits of the technology, but this seemed to be more of a footnote than anything. TalkTalk CEO Tristia Harrison claimed that fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) reduces the emissions of fiber-to-the-cabinet (FTTC) by 80%, but…