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1Gbps, 4K streaming, buffering a thing of the past – but do Brits really even want full fibre?

Martin Summers Silver badge

Someone who gets it rg287. It's not about the speed necessarily. It's about the creaking infrastructure and kicking the can down the road until that infrastructure is completely shot and the investment money was spent trying to shove more signal down it.

Never mind what speed it can give you or what you can use it for. Full fibre to the home gives you the potential for use we haven't comprehended yet and the reliability we need right now. It also gives people who have to put up with almost nothing in terms of speed right up to where they should be in this day and age.

I remember as a kid seeing the work crews laying ComTel cable round by where I lived and the Herculean effort it took to cable up an entire estate, actually as it happens fairly quickly. All we need is a repeat of that effort on a national scale and we are set.

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