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G7 countries beat UK in worldwide broadband speed test again

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Re: What is "enough"?

Maybe the UK has a fleet of Ford Mondeos while the rest of the world has Ferraris, but when most people just want to commute to/from work, pop down the shops or pootle up the motorway on a trip, what are they missing out on by not having a sports car?

Exactly. Also as I've pointed out previously the UK's network took the work from home pandemic in its stride. It shrugs off minor events like World Cups and Apple's latest update. Aside from the increasingly small minority of people who are stuck on ADSL exactly who is suffering?

And as I've mentioned before most people aren't taking the fastest service available to them anyway. If everyone went for the fastest package available to them our average would jump up hugely (Thinkbroadband ran the numbers several years ago and we'd be at the top of the league). Now fair enough pricing might have something to do with but as we're saying here - how much does it matter?

FTTP is good tech and we should be moving forward with it for sure but few people in the UK are actually short of speed and unable to do the things they want to do.

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