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Do Brits Really Even Want Full Fibre?

posted by Fnord666 on Friday August 09 2019, @10:17AM   Printer-friendly
from the betteridge-says-no dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

According to Ofcom, speeds of 24Mbps are currently available to 94 per cent of premises. Yet only 45 per cent have signed up, sticking with their poxy standard ADSL packages of around 11-12Mbps.

A survey of 3,000 customers by Which? suggests that the most common reason for not bothering to upgrade was because people felt happy with their current speeds.

So if people can't be arsed to upgrade from creaking ADSL services to the much-derided "superfast" fibre-to-the-cabinet (FTTC) speeds, why on earth are they going to bother with the far more expensive full-fibre speeds?

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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by maxwell demon on Friday August 09 2019, @11:12AM (1 child)

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Friday August 09 2019, @11:12AM (#877844) Journal

    Back when I had a 14.4k modem, I also couldn't imagine that you would need a megabit connection just to display a few websites …

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Chocolate on Friday August 09 2019, @12:41PM

    by Chocolate (8044) on Friday August 09 2019, @12:41PM (#877870) Journal

    That was before websites became multi megabyte monsters needing DSL bandwidth to be usable. Who could foretell how congested the net would become way back then. It was all about speed and optimisation in the beginning. Now it's a game of who can scrape your data the best.

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