https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/14/openreach_lowers_newbuild_limit_for_free_fttp_connections/

Good news for much-maligned new-build contractors in the UK - equally maligned UK broadband infrastructure provider OpenReach today says it will drop the threshold for installing gigabit-capable fibre-to-the-premises connections to new build developments — from 30 houses to just 20.

This new threshold will take effect later this year, on April 1 - no really. The aim, it says, is to increase the uptake of fibre-to-the-premises on new developments from the current level of 45 per cent up to 100 per cent. It constitutes part of the firm's "Fibre First" effort to bring full-fibre connections to 4 million UK premises by March 2021.