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A friend of mine is in the lucky postion of living in an area which is served by Virgin Media, Openreach FTTP, Lit Fibre and Community Fibre.

Historically he's gone with Virgin because of the TV and Broadband bundles they offer. He's on their Mega Volt package but after recontracting he's lost a lot of things. He's gone from 1Gb internet to 512Mb and has lost the BT Sports as they're not bundled anymore.

Long story short he's got 14 days to change his mind and has decided its not worth it anymore and has asked me which ISP he should go with.

I only have Openreach FTTC @40Mb max speed, VIrgin Media and Community Fibre in my area so the choice was easy for me. I'm with Community Fibre and i'd like to recommened them. However Community Fibre when i signed up over a year ago at least provided dynamic IPV4 on their 1Gb plan now they only do CGNAT. So im hessitant to recommend them.

Lit from the looks of it can have a static IPV4 address for £5 a month.

Then there are the Openreach FTTP options

What should he go for?
 
What sort of requirements does your friend have?

Do they have a budget? Do they need a public IPv4 address? Do they have a requirement on broadband speed? Any other info you can provide?
 
What sort of requirements does your friend have?

Do they have a budget? Do they need a public IPv4 address? Do they have a requirement on broadband speed? Any other info you can provide?
He's not price sensitve...but he doesn't like paying more for less.

As for public IPV4 it is a must CGNAT won't be good enough for his use case. He was more than happy with the 1gig down and 100Mb up with virgin. But now under the new Mega Volt deal its 512Mb down and 50Mb up.

CF:- is £26 for 1Gb symmetrical but CGNAT
Lit Fibre:- is £25 1Gb Symmetrical + £5 for static IP
Then the Various Openreach FTTP options which from my understanding is 900Mb down and up to 110Mb up.
 
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