The 70% figure is very recent and largely due to Virgin Media doing a massive upgrade. It surprised me too.
Re:Wiring My Home with Fiber
by LaLaLand122 on Monday October 31, 2022 @08:25PM
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FWIW last time I checked, central London did indeed have slow connectivity, but it didn't extrapolate to the rest of the UK.
No idea why the center of the capital was equivalent to a remote small town in this regard.
I agree, that's very counterintuitive. You'd think the economics would generally be in London's favour, given the high population density. (Though digging up the streets might be harder and therefore more expensive?)
When I lived in central London (tube zone 2), all that was available at my address was a wet-noodle quality 20 Mbps DSL connection. No BT FTTP, no Virgin, no Hyperoptic, no G.Network. This was in early 2022.
I now live in Switzerland and have a 25 Gbps FTTP connection, paying about 30% more than I paid in London for the DSL line.
It's a completely different world connectivity-wise.