Another data point (about Italy).<p>Almost <i>any</i> "home" contract is around 30-35 Euro/month, no matter the technology, ADSL or "fiber" (or radio) doesn't change much.<p>What is called "fiber" is NOT (with some exceptions in some parts of some cities) actual "fiber", but rather "fiber+copper", i.e. if you are within 100-400 meters from the telephone cabin/actual end of the fiber you are mostly fine, if you are more than 500 meters away, speed is far from the advertised one, if you are 1,200 meters or more there is no practical difference from "traditional" ADSL.<p>Everyone is trying to make people get their land line migrate to VOIP over the "fiber" with an actual reliability (and quality) of communication that is often more than terrible, unbearable.<p>And noone tells you that in case of a blackout (which can often happen in emergencies) a normal landline will still work 99.99% of times, whilst (obviously) the VOIP won't, unless maybe if you have your own power supply for the router.<p>The mentioned in the article operator (Fastweb) is only one among the several providers, from experience it is one of those that you cannot count on, in the sense that if you are lucky and their (your) connection works, it works, if for whatever reason it doesn't you won't ever be able to have them solve the problem.