The reason is that people live "near" a cabinet, but not near the exchange. Their broadband until fibre was dictated by the run from home to the exchange. If you had nasty aluminium cables (like moi), then you were lucky to get 1 meg, and most of the time 135k-160k - and that was on "up to 8 megs". Now my nasty line only caps me at 50 megs as I am quite close to the cabinet, and then the run to the exchange is done by fibre, not copper anymore.

Before I was lucky to load most webpages - any generic "player" was out.

So, it's not the speed, but the better connectivity - and BT have it right for our area and have provided a step jump in connection speeds for 1000's of us!

Rob

PS We are not in the sticks either, just outside York!

I can understand why some people want super high speed, ok it is super high speed int his country. Myself I am not that bothered, i wanted a better speed than I was getting on ADSl, and Allpay gave me the chance with their wireless service. i knew FTTC was coming but Bt kept moving the date.

I think FTTC was here about a couple of months after I went with allpay.

TBH, I think I made the right choice, ok I only get 10 Megabits, but that is still a fair bit faster than my ADSL was, and I pay almost £30 for that, but I am not paying for a phone line, so that makes up for it.

I can watch HD netflix, which is fine and since I don't watch TV and don't have a TV licence it is my main form of video entertainment.

I still got 12 months to run on my broadband contract, it is a bit longer than I normally go for, i think I will keep it even after the contract is out. the price I pay for unlimited is ok, if i went for FTTC, it would cost me slightly more after adding on line rental and even if I did get it cheaper it would mean going to BT, Talk Talk, plusnet or sky and to be honest I do not want to go back to a large ISP, certainly not Bt or Talk Talk anyway.

The smaller Isps on FTTC are expensive for what you get, which is a shame, I am surprised by the amount of people I know that have no interest in going for fibre,