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About 70% of UK homes have access to a gigabit connection through either fibre or the Virgin Media HFC network. FTTP coverage is about 40% nationwide. It’s not
by matthewmacleod 4y ago
About 70% of UK homes have access to a gigabit connection through either fibre or the Virgin Media HFC network. FTTP coverage is about 40% nationwide. It’s not that rare.
- aix1 4y agoRespectfully, I find the 70% figure for access to a gigabit line extremely hard to believe. When I lived in central London (tube zone 2), all that was available at my address was a wet-noodle quality 20 Mbps DSL connection. No BT FTTP, no Virgin, no Hyperoptic, no G.Network. This was in early 2022. I now live in Switzerland and have a 25 Gbps FTTP connection, paying about 30% more than I paid in London for the DSL line. It's a completely different world connectivity-wise.
- cr3ative 4y agoThe 70% figure is very recent and largely due to Virgin Media doing a massive upgrade. It surprised me too.
- LaLaLand122 4y agoFWIW last time I checked, central London did indeed have slow connectivity, but it didn't extrapolate to the rest of the UK. No idea why the center of the capital was equivalent to a remote small town in this regard.
- aix1 4y agoI agree, that's very counterintuitive. You'd think the economics would generally be in London's favour, given the high population density. (Though digging up the streets might be harder and therefore more expensive?)
- yrgulation 4y agoWell i clearly couldnt find such homes and believe me i looked. I was happy to have found homes with proper structural integrity let alone high speed internet.