It&#x27;s not.<p>I live in Germany. I think we both can agree that I live in, if not the most technically advanced country in Europe that people claim to have very high-quality living standards.<p>We have about 81.2M citizens and 12.5M can use FTTC &#x2F; Bandwith plans with upload speeds of 10Mbit+<p>So about 15.39% of the population of Europes technically most advanced country have access to FTTC.<p>To see how bad it is, I uploaded you a picture. 
The colored marks are cities &#x2F; parts of the country where citizens can get a connection with the quality you claim as &quot;common.&quot;<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;qsAeRez.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;qsAeRez.png</a><p>Also, keep in mind that those kinds of plans are expensive. A plan with 50Mbits upload costs about 40€ per month.<p>About 4.3M (5%) of the German population live from the german unemployment benefits called &quot;ALG II &#x2F; Hartz 4&quot;.<p>That is 404€ a month for food, electricity, clothing, and everything else you need to live from.<p>Which means for 4.3 Million people they&#x27;d need to spend 10% of their monthly income on an FTTC connection.<p>You can see even over here in Europe 40Mbits upload is not quite common if almost 85% of the population don&#x27;t have access to it and 5% couldn&#x27;t even afford it if they wanted to.