Fiber to the Premises just a premise for many
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This does not mean that 97.7 percent of Romanian households have a fiber connection, only that this percentage of households lies within areas where it is available. Only two European countries have less than 50 percent of households in areas with FTTP; one is the UK with 42.9 percent, while Germany is at the bottom with just 21.3 percent.
However, BT's infrastructure division Openreach already has such a scheme, offering discounts to ISPs that get subscribers to sign up for fiber, and this hasRegardless, it appears the UK, with 20.5 percent fiber take-up, is beating most of Europe on this particular metric, despite having less than half the population able to access it.
One contributing factor highlighted by Ookla is the state of home networking equipment. It claims that in markets where legacy broadband technology is being replaced by advanced cable and fiber connections, Wi-Fi performance can lag behind. In terms of current median download speeds, which Ookla classifies as a standard metric for measuring performance, Denmark comes out best with 196.43 Mbps, followed by Spain with 176.08 Mbps. The UK languishes at second to bottom on 79.08 Mbps, with Italy on 63.05 Mbps.
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