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Originally Posted by jfman
I don’t think those who can’t get adequate broadband speeds are thinking that, to be fair. Everything is on demand for everyone who wants it in any case. There’s no benefit to ditching traditional tv channels for some time.
Just spent a few days at a holiday park in Cumbria. Wi-fi varied between 4 and 20 meg, 4G got 20-30. Enough to support a handful of “streaming” users at most.
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You’re lucky it wasn’t busier with people - 4G download is up to 150Mbps with a solid signal and nobody else on the same cell as you, but 4G phones are now ubiquitous and they all use a lot more data in the background than when the service first launched. I could get more than 100Mbps with an external antenna on a 4G router at Loch Lomond in the winter but once all the campsites fill up, it would be 2Mbps or less at times.
Freesat and Freeview together provide access to free-to-air TV to more than 99% of the UK population. That’s the level super fast broadband access will have to get to before it is viable enough as an alternative for those services to be switched off. And even then, nobody has yet begun talking about the fact that broadband isn’t free. At present once you pay your TV licence you can access whatever you want. If our TV service goes IP only, then you have to pay for fast broadband service as well.