A lack or investment and greed, it all started in the 1980's, British Telecom (run by the Post Office at the time) had a plan to update the entire copper POTS system to fiber as they were big players in developing the technology in the early days with the South Korea and Japan at the time but Thatcher put halt on that and privatized British Telecom for some quick cash. Only now is the POTS system being upgraded to fiber and that's only because the government is paying for it. The Koreans and the Japanese had the same plan and went through with theirs and and we slowly fell behind them and others who followed suit relying on copper network technologies such as ISDN and ADSL with high contention (50-1 on the dslam). Our mobile sector, always run by private companies, is just is just bad and will do the bare minimum to avoid being sued for false advertising. You never see mobile adverts say how fast it is anymore since the early 5G rollout. The 5G rollout has been slow and next to useless, plus you had idiots thinking it was being used for mind control during the pandemic and setting fire to the masts. After what 5 years now, we still have bad 5G coverage and only 3 soon to be only 2 networks that provide the service (Vodafone and Three are going to merge soon)

Adding the extra bandwidth and speed is nice an all but they need to add some security to the damn standard and stop with this stupid naming scheme crap they keep pulling.

Is this reason that Seagate had those rubber shoes on their HDD's back in those days ?