1gb/s no, but 100mb/s would be nice for the time being
I think the OFCOM research saying most are satisfied is probably spin and selective interpretation from them to prevent them from having to actually get the ISPs and Openreach to do anything drastic.
I think the other issue is that although services like Netflix, Amazon, YouTube etc are in much wider use, most people still watch live TV through freeview or Sky so they don't need the higher bandwidth for streaming just yet. I believe Sky was looking at removing dish and pushing all its TV through your internet connection. If/When that happens, I would put my house on it that suddenly nearly all Sky customers with more than 1 person in the house would start shouting about how crap their internet is and they need faster fibre!
Also the cost of the higher speed FTTC packages is expensive and with no guaranteed speeds, people aren't going to be in a rush to change over and will settle with what they have.
I'd like faster internet that's for sure but then I'm a techy and work in IT (and work from home regularly), and I have 3 kids (2 of which spend painful amounts of time on youtube or online gaming. I'm sure the 10month old will be following suit as soon as she can!) I find on my 43mb/s (was 53mb/s but the super reliable FTTC lost 10mb/s out of nowhere...still better than ADSL though) that downloads can be a bit slow at times or videos can be a bit buffery.
I think I'd get by fine with 100mb/s for the time being. I'm a Sky customer though, which could change that to require faster connection if they go down the IP route. 1gb/s would be fantastic but as previously mentioned, a lot of services out there can't handle that speed yet. I've got most of my devices wired so could use the speeds at home, but again understand a lot of people using WiFi wouldn't be able to take advantage of 1gb/s.
Maybe they should consider building Cat6 into new builds with network points in each room going forward instead of TV ariels. Would make some interesting use cases for PoE as well!
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