Gigaom - The U.K. will get 300 Mbps fiber to the home connections available on a wholesale basis. And that, my friends, is the sound of broadband supremacy passing us by in the U.S. Sure, we’re aware that Japan, Korea and the Netherlands all have gigabit broadband, while most of us languish with cable or even DSL connections that deliver a nationwide average of 5.1 Mbps according to Akamai. But now, the U.K. is trumping us with the announcement of an open 300 Mbps network.
The firm says it will connect three million premises with high-speed fibre connections by 2020.
BT's broadband and pay-TV services received the most complaints during the summer, show figures from regulator Ofcom.
Users take to social media to vent their frustration with their BT Home Hubs and Amazon’s new voice-assistant speaker, which stalled on setup
