Re: Misleading stats
Agree highly misleading and selective use of statistics.
For example:
However, the availability and take-up of ultrafast services (offering speeds above 300Mbps), in the UK is comparatively low
Firstly, to get speeds above 300Mbps, one of the follow scenarios needs to apply:
1) G.fast over FTTC and your residence is within 100m of the cabinet.
2) FTTP from an Alt-ISP such as Gigaclear. But then this can be discounted as strictly these 500Mbps services are classified as "Hyperfast" and not "Ultrafast".
3) You are using bonded sub 300Mbps lines (FTTC/FTTP) to create an aggregated line. But then I suspect your usage scenario would be invisible to Ofcom et al.
Note the threshold explicitly excludes:
1) Virginmedia Vivid 300 upto 300Mbps service.
2) BT Infinity 4, which also has a upto 300Mbps limit.
Both of which are recently introduced and premium-priced services.
So, given how, for many households, a 40/10 Mbps FTTC service is more than adequate, you have to ask whether this is a really meaningful metric.
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