Our US audience may have looked on in envy at the major fiber network plans revealed by the UK government this week, making it our job to reassure readers that the initiative – in its fledgling state – is already in dire need of a rethink. By introducing the idea that every home in the UK will soon have gigabit speed fiber to the home (FTTH) broadband, the UK government has sipped from a poisoned chalice, and ultimate failure to fulfill these promises will have detrimental effects for the wider OTT video ecosystem. We sincerely hope these plans kick broadband operators into gear, yet we fear a repeat situation of the disastrous government-run national broadband network (nbn) project in Australia…