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

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: 2) by aim on Friday August 09 2019, @11:25AM

    by aim (6322) on Friday August 09 2019, @11:25AM (#877846)

    I'm not sure how it's marketed in the UK, but in my home country fibre (or VDSL, where fibre is not physically present yet) lines feature much higher upstreams than plain old ADSL - typically at half the downstream.

    I'll grant I may not be the normal user, in that I run my own server from home, but I felt this said upstream to be a huge boon. As soon as fibre became available, I went for it, and never looked back. I'm still at those 100Mbit/s downstream (with 50Mbit/s upstream), where I don't feel a need to upgrade so far. 1Gbit/s would be available, but I don't see any reason to pay the premium.

    AFAIK, plain old ADSL is not even available any more, it's only the old connections being kept alive - much as the even older ISDN lines. POTS is mostly gone here, as VOIP is rolled into the fibre offers.

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