Olivia garfield, former CEO of Openreach. Said something like 24 Mbits was enough for every house hold at the time , about 2014.

I remember her, she emailed me disagree with me to have future FTTP saying it more suitable to businesses than residential and saying FTTC was more than enough for many years as she emailed back in 2015. Openreach chief executive Olivia Garfield said: "FTTP on demand is a significant development for Broadband Britain. Essentially, it could make our fastest speeds available wherever we deploy fibre. This will be welcome news for small businesses who may wish to benefit from the competitive advantage that such speeds provide.

"We are also doubling the speed of our standard fibre broadband this spring giving ISPs the chance to offer speeds of up to 80Mbps. This will ensure that residential customers have world class speeds for all their family's needs."

She is now CEO of STW company. Glad she left Openreach, because if she still in charge then she will ruled out full fibre for all residential as she probably stick to her plan to stay on FTTC and G.fast by now and near future.

She is load of moneybag! She is expected to be paid a basic salary of £650,000 at Severn, and receive a pension contribution of 25 per cent, equalling £162,500.

Her maximum annual bonus of 120 per cent would be £780,000

Edited by adslmax (Fri 31-Dec-21 17:09:58)

In reply to a post by witchunt:

Olivia garfield, former CEO of Openreach. Said something like 24 Mbits was enough for every house hold at the time , about 2014.

I expect it was more than enough for most households then. Different now with 4K, get a few people streaming 4K at the same time and your 24 Mb/s would not be much cop.

It seems my new contract have gone through, the email I and text I got saying sorry you are leaving was an error.

This contract lasts until June 2023, so we will see what things are like then.

she was no doubt correct, most people can cope with FTTC speeds as long as they are not silly slow speeds./
I get 35-36Mb/s and it does what I need, sure if you can get faster for not much more money then yes go for it. FTTP is more reliable, saying that i have had no real problem with my broadband for 112 months or more.

'Most people' is a lot of people.

You've been on this broadband enthusiasts site for the best part of 20 years and you have happily chosen 35meg service for £7 less than a 150meg service. I'm sure you will continue to enjoy your circuit.

Most people are not broadband enthusiasts and maybe that's why take up of faster full fibre speeds is so poor.

Edited by FibreBubble (Fri 31-Dec-21 18:04:18)

In reply to a post by witchunt:

Olivia garfield, former CEO of Openreach. Said something like 24 Mbits was enough for every house hold at the time , about 2014.

There was a female UK boss of Tiscali years back. Famously said that 2Mbps was enough for anybody. (Note, there is no typo there).

One of the best tech prediction howlers of all time..

“I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.”

It was 1943, but the man who said it was president of IBM. Yeah…🙈

Or how about more recently:

“There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.”

Courtesy of Ken Olsen founder of Digital Equipment Corp. in 1977 - the same year that Atari went on to release their Atari 2600 (aka Video Game Computer). They sold 12 million of them…

Bill Gates. The internet will not catch on with the public.

And IBM, poo-pooing home computers for a few years. We all had Digital Research CP/M-based ones from several manufacturers, including networking with MP/M in later years. The name "Personal Computer" now PC was created by IBM once they realised they needed to be in the market. There were just called microcomputers or micros before that.

In reply to a post by zyborg47:

I get 35-36Mb/s and it does what I need, sure if you can get faster for not much more money then yes go for it.

as I said before, for many people since March 2020, the internet became their only way to work. Colleagues whom had 16 Mbps download and 0.5 Mbps upload services on ADSL found they couldn’t do the needed Zoom/Webex/Teams calls with colleagues reliably. Many upgrades to FTTC (VDSL) were then ordered.

I had no problem with my old 45 Mbps down from Plusnet, paying around £35 a month, but the upload dropping from 8 Mbps down to around 2 Mbps was not enough for me, believed due to crosstalk in the street as people switched between providers.

It was the kick that moved me to Cable, paying £15/m more for internet only (no home phone) but 20 Mbps upload which was the feature I looked for. (I skipped the 10 Mbps upload entry product).

Everyone has their own needs for internet, each person / family makes their own judgement over needs and price. Some of these judgements will change again this coming year.

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