UK broadband of 10 Mbps = legal right

theguardian.com/technology/2017/dec/20/high-speed-broadband-to-be-legal-right-for-uk-homes-and-businesses

Yes, 10 Mbps by 2020. And it's on demand, only.

Oh, and there will be a download allowance of 100GB/month.

>tfw paying $75 per month for a 3mb down 1mb up connection
It's a small price to pay for liberty and pursuit of burger

I get 1gbps for $50
Good god your internet is shit
Is this the price of socialism?

b-b-but muh net neutrality

>mfw i live in a shithole with unlimited 1 gbps internet for 20 euro a month

> mfw MY shithole has 1gbps for 10 euro/month

10mbs is so out of date its a joke

you fucking cucks should be ashamed of yourselves for not overthrowing the government by now

you idiots always let yourself be tricked by stupid wording

They’re setting a minimum requirement.

Dumb burger.
We are light years behind Europe in telecommunications.

aye you beat most of us. Romania is like in the top 5 countries with the best internet

>having data caps

How do I get a Thai qt3.5 gf?

Estonia gets gig fiber for $15 a month, why are we behind commie blocs?

Their infrastructure is decades newer

Wtf I pay 75 a month for 5 MBps

I thought our internet was bad but not that bad. I mean we can't compete with East Asia but then fucking subhuman eastern Europeans with 1024mbps

this is some risitas level laughs...imagine having all of your telephone lines controlled by a single company with govt backing (BT - British Telecom). Unless you are one of the lucky few to get on the openreach fibre rollout, just leave for greener pastures.

No, only some parts of American can get that, where investment in infrastructure is high. The problem with fast internet is that it's impossible for private business to make money by spending an insane amount of money in one area, especially somewhere remote, to service a small number of public


If you want to give everyone a reasonable minimum speed guranteed then you have to socialize it. Not that I agree with that, I do not, I think it should be a private business. But at the same time people in remote areas don't get to complain about connectivity.

My ISP Virgin Media have just rolled out 300Mbit DOCSIS 3.0 which I'm fairly happy with, even the biggest of files which tend to be things like modern steam games around the 60-80Gb mark, a 300mbit connection is well under an hours download.

This is beyond retarded. Why do governments extend rights to shit like this. Just kills innovation. Any "right" which involves a minimum value is fucking retarded.

You also probably live in bumfuck nowhere where the internet infrastructure is less developed than urban US and Europe

The phone lines were actually handed off to OpenReach an independent arm of BT separate from the ISP. And the govt basically said the telephone exchanges and the physical phone lines are now opened up to any provider.

So there's multiple actual networks carriers who unbundle off BT kit at the exchange, it's called Local Loop Unbundling (LLU) and means there's many separate networks popping up around the country.

These networks can then resell that connectivity to many different competing ISPs, so competition is really healthy because the last mile or so to the premises across the phone line is now out of the equation and stops any "natural monopolies", which totally aren't actually "natural monopolies" but it's probably a good thing anyway.

Look at the bed shitting the americans did about NN, they were worried that ISPs would misbehave and throttle and of course the brits would say simply take your business to another ISP, which many americans cannot because of the ridiculous monopolies they do have due to government meddling in the telcos from WW2 onwards.

so it's completely useless unless you want to download video games

>modern steam games around the 60-80Gb mark

It took me four days to download the 1.18~1.20 update for FFXV; 13GB @ 70 kB/s.

Because europe is small af. If NA was the size of europe it would be the same if not better

The problem is that they put in all their infrastructure recently. We've still got copper cable running most places and BT doesn't want to replace it (despite taking government money to do so). That's BT were forced to separate it's business and now the phone lines are administered by openreach. They still hate replacing the lines though especially out in the boonies.

"Wtf why do we give people electricity it just kills innovation"

>10Mbps
I've only got 1/5th of that right now

I feel for you user

I know that there is competition from various ISP, but no matter which one I used (plusnet, EE, vodafone, etc) they ALWAYS had to have BT involved to "set it up". Regardless, the internet speeds available in London were poor.

As for NN, that has little to do with ISP options, and the speeds available in most parts of the US are faster than what can be found in most parts of the UK.

>Mfw when we are in top 5 internet speed in the world.

kek my neighbor in a bumfuck city with 70k people in it had 40gbit 10 years ago.

Mfw

Already got 150 and I haven't paid for an upgrade in over ten years.

Not Virgin Media. They have their own network.

>tfw only get 200mbps for 60/month
Better than the only other option of att where their max speed is 30mbps

Lol at these cavemen. I get 1TB/s for 0.0001BTC

>yeah, but we are the poorest country in europe

pity that you can browse only in safenet, with a registered personal terminal and with your certified credentials. But careful or your subscription could be canceled.

-stop consuming hate-

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no that's us, you're second poorest. but that's just in EU. Moldova and Ukraine are poorer than us.

Only 100gb a month?

That's like 4 modern AAA games, or 30 - 60 1080p movies.

What about 4K content? 100GB IS NOTHING. I'm on that in a day, probably.

Well if you want files significantly bigger than 80Gb on a regular basis then you're into business line territory in which case there's loads of providers in the UK that'll put fiber to the premises but you'll pay an arm or a leg for it. Most average consumers dont need anything like 80Gb in less than an hour though.

I have 16tb of storage but I don't even need 300mbit really.

I dunno if those ISPs are on the same LLU network? I'm not sure. But if speeds are permenantly poor its probably a physical connectivity issue, the max speed across copper phone lines depends largely on quality of the line (typically how old it is) and then distance from either the cabinet (if you have FTTC) or distance to the exchange if you don't have 21CN.

This is why its worth getting a VM line to your home if you can get it in your area, because their lines are high quality coaxial cable and not crap copper phone lines, so can handle 200-300mbit easily.

The arguments for NN were to do almost entirely with how ISPs would be percieved to operate if they had the freedom, for example putting in "fast lanes" to which the answer is, well get lots of competition and they will offer you competative products and it wont cost you anything more. To which the reply was almost always, there is no competition so they can do whatever they like.

tfw gigabit ethernet

>minimum legal right
>muh gaymen!
>muh 4k content!
I hope this is bait

Pfft, 10Mb? Our goverment is forcing 25Mb minimum with no data caps.

>download allowance
What is this bullshit?

Virgin dug up our street 2 months ago and I get 200mbit for 30 quid a month.

Wow...

JUST

>tfw moved house and fell for the talk talk meme
>Pakis pushed my activation date 4 different times and dropped contact with me a few times
>Pakis just reading from a script
>Even forgot to book an engineer appointment for me
>Engineer didn’t show up the two times they were booked
>Told then I’m cancelling
>”But we be offerings a 3 month of free servicings”

IM NOT GETTING ANY SERVICE YOU MUSLIM PAKI CUNT

Thank god for Virgin Fibre.