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30% may subscribe but nearly 90% (in England) have it available to them: http://labs.thinkbroadband.com/local/?area=eng http://labs.thinkbroadband.com/local/?ar
by martinald 11y ago
30% may subscribe but nearly 90% (in England) have it available to them: http://labs.thinkbroadband.com/local/?area=eng http://labs.thinkbroadband.com/local/?area=eng
Probably a chicken and egg problem, why upgrade to fibre many people will think when you have no need for it apart from slightly faster large file downloads
- georgerobinson 11y agoThanks for the link! If 94% of the population can subscribe to BT's FTTC service and get at least 25Mbps then the state of broadband in the UK is much better than I had previously thought. That said, 25Mb/s is at the lower end of the FTTC service. I can imagine a lot of households will max out at around 40Mbps due to distance from the cabinet and cross-talk on busy lines (though vectoring should help somewhat). I would like to see what G.FAST can deliver but unshielded copper phone lines can only take you so far.
- martinald 11y agoDon't forget that ~50% can get up to 300mbit/sec (by the end of the year) with Virgin Media. And probably 2-3% more can get direct FTTP with Hyperoptic, BT or Sky/TalkTalk or other altnets.