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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: 2) by AthanasiusKircher on Friday August 09 2019, @10:45PM (1 child)

    by AthanasiusKircher (5291) on Friday August 09 2019, @10:45PM (#878050) Journal

    Thanks for the clarification. I thought it was mostly low latency that gamers were after, but I've seen a lot of discussion online where gamers have chimed in and said they really need their ultra high bandwidth connections, too, so I assumed they were using them for something.

    But that just makes me even more mystified at the vitriol displayed in the post I was replying to (as well as the summary and some other posts here) where 24-25 Mbps is apparently so ungodly slow that no one on the planet could find it usable anymore.

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  • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Monday August 12 2019, @01:56PM

    by Freeman (732) on Monday August 12 2019, @01:56PM (#879177) Journal

    Well, it is kind of hard to play COD:Black Ops 4, stream to all your Twitch followers, download torrents, and stream Netflix all at the same time. So, 25Mbps might get a bit dicey in that situation . . . Though, there's also the Multiple GB patches that some games put out. They want to play when they want to play, so waiting 30 minutes or more to play would be the end of the world.

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