The UK is the most frustrating place to live sometimes. The English speaking world has a shining example of how to not fuck this up in NZ, yet they keep doing the opposite. Against all sorts of lobbying, the NZ govt. forcibly separated our telecom monopoly provider into a retail and a wholesale company, then they put a whole bunch of money up for competitive tender to build a national fibre network. And it works, it honestly fucking works.
I've got Virgin in London and it's a piece of shit compared to what I had in NZ. In theory, I have 200mb down, but the uplink is bullshit because they convert to cable for some unknown reason. I also rarely see the performance that a 200mb connection should have. In NZ I had, in the first days of fibre, 30 down 10 up. It was always this speed, the fibre terminated at my house and was more responsive and reliable than what I have now in the UK.
Here, the govt keeps kicking around, getting conned by the industry as they promsie to upgade things, to be better. It's such a joke.
For reference these are real plans, with reliable speeds, with FTTH: https://imgur.com/a/8JeV7 (divide amount by 2 for £, take off 30%ish for USD)
I've got Virgin in London and it's a piece of shit compared to what I had in NZ. In theory, I have 200mb down, but the uplink is bullshit because they convert to cable for some unknown reason. I also rarely see the performance that a 200mb connection should have. In NZ I had, in the first days of fibre, 30 down 10 up. It was always this speed, the fibre terminated at my house and was more responsive and reliable than what I have now in the UK.
Here, the govt keeps kicking around, getting conned by the industry as they promsie to upgade things, to be better. It's such a joke.
For reference these are real plans, with reliable speeds, with FTTH: https://imgur.com/a/8JeV7 (divide amount by 2 for £, take off 30%ish for USD)