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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 boltronics on Saturday August 10 2019, @02:44PM
The company I work at is moving offices. The new location only had ADSL2+ and no pre-existing fibre option in the area, so we're putting in a Mid-Band Ethernet / Ethernet over copper connection that will give us up to 24Mbps. This is for an office of ~30 people, with another 5 or so people remotely connected via VPN. Oh yeah, and we're an Internet company!
Sure we'll take a quicker connection when it becomes available, but if a business of 30 people simultaneously using a 24Mbit connection can get by, I'm sure a household of 5 or 6 people on a 11Mbps or 12Mbps connection will be just fine. That is, except for the few people doing heavy uploads - high-def video conferencing, streamers, YouTubers, etc. since ADSL isn't symmetrical.
BTW, my home ADSL2+ connection is just over 17Mbps. I would imagine a lot of people (those that live closer to the exchange) have quicker speeds than 12Mbps, unless the ISPs are capping them.
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