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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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Do Brits Really Even Want Full Fibre?
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Can anyone remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 09 2019, @05:28PM
also AWESOME peering agreements of the ISP providing fiber would be great.
mostly all the promised speeds are just to local datawhorehouses of the big players like google (incl. youtube), facebook, akamai stuff and M$.
as soon as you hit a "small" website (which might even have a fat connection but isn't housed in a datawhorehouse and is really half a globe away) the peering and routing falls off a cliff and you're back in 56k molasses world.
the technician keeps reminding me that the promised speeds is for the ISP managed network, that is they're hosting a "speedtest.net" server and the speed checks out ... until you manually select a "speedtest.net" server 180 deg. around the globe, probably also hosted by a speed guaranteeing ISP and then ... voila ... your REAL internet speed you're paying for is revealed ^_^
"but who cares! BBbbzzz!"