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In Greece no ISP offers symmetrical. Fiber connections are 50/5, 100/10, and 200/20. There was a pilot program for 1Gbit symmetrical but it never made it to con

• sakisv 5y ago
  No major ISP that is. There are some smaller ones that offer symmetrical (like hcn) but you need to be lucky to be covered by their network.
• macns 5y ago
  Some of my business customers pay for 50/50mbps fiber to the building (dedicated) line for 500€/month. 100/100mbps costs about 800/month. Residential broadband excluding Athens is mostly down to 50/5mbps and in many suburbs in cities (e.g. Khania, Crete) don't even get more than 1mbps upload. Yet we have politicians and commercials all day showing how '5G' will change our lives. It's a joke.
• lifty 5y ago
  Greece is truly embarrassing when it comes to data services, both for wired connections and data on mobile contracts. Why is that? Is the market cornered by some monopoly/oligopoly?
  • elorant 5y ago
    Practically what we have is a cartel. Three major players with similar pricing. Government has no real intention to intervene because one company is half owned by the public sector. It's a fucking disgrace when you compare prices with rest of Europe. Even less developed countries are way cheaper. As someone else mentioned there are some smaller players who give kind of symmetrical but their coverage is way too small, like 10% of major metropolitan areas and nowhere else.