No, but I do think that people should be on FTTP not FTTC, just because of how much more reliable it is.

Exactly. Just because you may get 80/20, doesn't mean that you'll not get FTTP. FTTP is the future.

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I do think that people should be on FTTP not FTTC

FTTC is fit for purpose and millions of UK homes are happily using it, to say 'people should be on FTTP' is pushing it not by a little but a lot.

I didn't say it wasn't "fit for purpose". But, it's using an aging copper infrastructure that is gradually falling apart. We should've all been on FTTP years ago...

A good part of the problem has been the false promises of better broadband cumming soon. Started on 1Mb fixed ADSL, with ADSLmax in 2006. Around that time Superfast Scotland were saying faster broadband coming soon, I asked even for the properties outside the village, the answer was yes. The village got FTTC in 2014, but of course too far from the cabinet. Told not to worry, upgrade coming to my postcode in 2017. 2017 saw an infill cabinet, which was still too far away. Had the minor upgrade of ADSL2+, which gave slight lift in speed at the expense of stability. In 2020 gave up on the 3Mb/350Kb ADSL2+ to use 4G, which can vary from OK to good, but always better than the ADSL2+. Now being told FTTP in the first 6 months of next year.
So expectations repeatedly raised, and not met.

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No, but I do think that people should be on FTTP not FTTC, just because of how much more reliable it is.

As we already have the copper and cabinets wouldn't it be quicker to move everyone that wants a bit more speed to FTTC and those that want a lot more speed to FTTP later as i imagine those that need 150Mbps plus and more are in a huge minority.

You would think so, but FTTP is way more reliable and has fewer faults than FTTC.

The VDSL2 that FTTC provides attenuates far more than ADSL2+, which in turn attenuates more than ADSL2. Which is usually but not always better than ADSL.

There are quite a few places that can have FTTC, in that it is shown as available to them, but it would be slower than what they are on.

Because in internet terms the UK and a third world country and you can thank BT and the government for that..

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But, it's using an aging copper infrastructure that is gradually falling apart.

And in my case possibly some aluminium so I was told by one of the engineers who've tried to sort my line out in the past 20 odd years