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?
(Score: 2) by Magic Oddball on Friday August 09 2019, @07:57PM
My connection is 6mbps, and it's fine not only for web browsing, but streaming HD video and audiobooks. Most sources I download files from (Linux repository, Google Play, BitTorrent, etc.) are much slower than my connection is anyway, so getting a faster connection wouldn't help much there, either.