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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 Dr Spin on Saturday August 10 2019, @09:53AM
Before you can login to the router, you have to sign the contract - and by then you are stuffed.
You can also use an app on your mobile - I used the same one, on the same phone, here in the UK and in Nigeria. Sure "3" in the UK is fastest, but Airtel in Nigeria is faster OTA that
hard wired, landline, FTTC using BT. And using OpenWRT on a BT router (or a Draytek) is at least twice as fast an ten times more reliable than BT's routers with their own firmware.
Also, "they are all in it together" - all the ISPs use the same hardware to the exchange anyway (except Virgin) so you may have a choice of who you pay, but what you get - not so much.
With Virgin (which I am not), the problem is understanding what you will get, and what you have to pay for. The few people I know on Virgin pay a lot for things I don't want,
so I am not going to go with them.
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