1152 fibres? Sheesh! You'd have thought that terminating a couple as they came past each village wouldn't have killed them

It's not like the 1,000 fibres they'd have left would put a limit on the capacity.
On Gigaclear's targeting - yes from what I understand, that is exactly their business model. Go for the areas with a reasonable size population that aren't due to get brought into the 21
st century in the foreseeable (even though we're now on the BDUK funded survey list for FTTC; it's only one cabinet which really doesn't seem to be anywhere near enough to cover the village and even that one cabinet is still only a 'maybe').
I don't know how much it will cost to 'fibre' Kings Cliffe but let's guess at £2-300,000. With their 30% connection minimum, and allowing for backhaul and overheads, that's a ROI in five years or so which isn't bad and probably explains the venture capital they've had invested in the company.
Sigh... why we, as a country, don't invest in 'fibreing' up everywhere instead of spending billions on building victorian technology railways that'll knock 20mins off a London to Birmingham journey I cannot understand.
By the time the railway's built we'll all be using 3D holographic projection for meetings not wasting hours traveling around... well; those with enough bandwidth will. Let's hope Cliffe falls into that category.