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Do Brits Really Even Want Full Fibre?

posted by Fnord666 on Friday August 09 2019, @10:17AM   
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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• Re:24Mbps is a joke Re:24Mbps is a joke (Score: 2) by stormreaver on Friday August 09 2019, @01:30PM (1 child)

  by stormreaver (5101) on Friday August 09 2019, @01:30PM (#877883)

  If they offered 100Mbps that would be worth the upgrade....

  I had AT&T 24mb (I forgot the up speed, but I think it was 6mb) Uverse for years. It cost me $70/month. Then another $45 for the landline phone service. When Mediacom offered free installation for their 100mb/40(?) package at $50 a month, I jumped on it. While I was getting by on 24mb, the ability to give AT&T the middle finger was irresistible. Plus getting four times the speed for 30% less was a no-brainer. I replaced the $45/month landline service with a $45/month family cell plan.

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• Re:24Mbps is a joke (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 09 2019, @01:36PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 09 2019, @01:36PM (#877887)

  Do they try to force you to pay extra to have a 'phone line' on a fiber connection?

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