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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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(Score: 2) by driverless on Saturday August 10 2019, @02:54AM
I wasn't really saying that I needed more speed, but that paying more for (snort) 24Mbps fibre was a joke because I can get cheaper A/VDSL that offers the same or better service. In my case I'm getting > 60Mbps on VDSL compared to the throttled/crippled 30Mbps cheapest-price fibre, and because it's GPON you're lucky to get anywhere near even that throttled rate mid-evening when everyone's streaming video. So even if you're OK with an advertised rate of 24Mbps, it depends what rate you're actually getting. From a quick google it looks like the UK uses PON as well, and if they're underprovisioning their infrastructure to save costs like they do here you'll be lucky to stream video at peak demand times.
Another problem is web page bloat, if you're browsing $random_ecommerce_site and open a dozen tabs for comparison-shopping, where each tab is 5-10MB of images and JS and animations and bloat, you're going to notice the difference between 24Mbps and 100Mbps.