Comment Re:The status quo (Score 1) 426
In France, you'll find contracts talking about speed, but everything will say "up to". My home line goes "up to" 8Mbit/s, but it more around 6. A friend has a 100Mbit/s connection, but he seems to peak at about 35-40. There is actually relatively little difference in price between different offers; most go for a flat fee of around 35 Euros a month for unlimited Internet (up to 8, 18 or x Mbit/s), unlimited national phone calls via VoIP, and free TV via ADSL. If I get the full 8 as advertised, well, great! I get 6, and I pay the same fee. However, if it goes radically under that, like 1Mbit/s our even 512k, then they do lower their prices.
Here, we pay to get connected, not for speed. Speed is just luck, somehow.