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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 driverless on Saturday August 10 2019, @03:00AM

    by driverless (4770) on Saturday August 10 2019, @03:00AM (#878092)

    Yeah, GPON. It's great when you're the first customer on the OLT because you've got a dedicated optical link to the core network.

    Then a few more people join up and things are at about 50% capacity and you start to get performance about what's advertised.

    Then more people join up and things are at 100% capacity and you're noticing lag and dropouts at peak times.

    Then even more people join up and things are at 200% capacity and you get nothing but "buffering..." messages mid-evening when you want to watch a movie.

    Then more people join up and things are at 400% capacity and even web surfing is starting to lag.

    And they're still signing up more users, because there's no limit to how may times you can oversell your network.

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