yea. like I said, poor design decisions...

I think the last PPPoE connection I've seen was in 2006-2007 in the scarcely populated northern Finland by a small local telco.
the previous occurence was around 2003 in one location is central Finland and even then it was like, wth, why?

anywho... like you said, that's that. Not like you are going to have a lot of choice of providers which hopefully will change over time as unbundling regulation finally starts working in UK.
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