Which internet contract is best for me? Fiberglass has the greatest technical advantages. But such a contract is expensive. A survey shows that there is not much enthusiasm about “FTTH”.
On topic Fiber optic Internet According to a survey, every second German citizen is on the brakes. In a survey by the comparison portal Verivox, around 38 percent of the 1,000 or so respondents said no to the question of whether they would like to switch to fiber optics. Most of them say they are happy with their current connection, others think the change is too much effort.
Around half of all those surveyed said yes when asked whether they would like to switch to fiber optics. However, not all of these people with a positive perspective would sign a contract: for a third of this group, the costs for a fiber optic contract are too high.
Based on all respondents, that’s around 15 percent. If you add this group and the naysayers together, fiber optic internet providers currently have a bad hand with 53 percent of those surveyed.
Ambitious expansion target by 2030
“Fiber to the Home” (FTTH), i.e. fiber optics into the home, is considered the best technology for very fast and stable transmission rates. Alternatives to this are the relatively fluctuation-prone television cable Internet and the relatively slow Internet via telephone lines (DSL/VDSL). .
The federal government wants fiber optic connections to be available nationwide by 2030. With this technology, light signals are transmitted – this is much faster than transmitting data over copper cables.
Fiber optics are already available to an estimated 20 million households and companies, roughly half of the households and companies in Germany. However, some of these households forego the corresponding contracts: fiber optics are within reach, but they are not used.
For the telecommunications providers, the low proportion of fiber optic connections actually booked (“homes activated”) is a problem: they have expensively rolled out the excavators and laid cables in order to do good business. But then it turns out again and again that local residents have a rather moderate interest.
Old, but still strongly represented: DSL
The Verivox survey also illustrates the continued strong position of DSL and VDSL in the market – this technology is gradually going out of fashion as it can no longer meet the growing data needs of users in their everyday digital lives. But it is still the most widespread transmission technology: almost half of those surveyed use DSL or VDSL – i.e. telephone lines – for Internet connections.
A quarter use television cable internet. Only a fifth of survey participants say they have pure fiber optic internet at home. The rest either have satellite internet or they also use the mobile network at home or they don’t know.
Expensive fiber optic contracts
According to Verivox, fiber optic tariffs recently cost between 40 and 90 euros per month – depending on where you live and which provider you have. These are gigabit tariffs, i.e. a connection of up to 1000 megabits per second in download or even more.
Another cost factor is the hardware, i.e. WLAN routers and repeaters. Verivox points out that not every household needs gigabit bandwidth. There are also cheaper fiber optic tariffs in which the bandwidth is capped at a certain maximum value, such as 250 megabits per second or 500 Mbit/s.
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Source: www.digitalfernsehen.de
