I've been living in the UK for the past 10 years. I payed 14 pounds for my 20 Mbit connection from BT. Most of the time my torrents would reach a 2.1 MB per second, Skype video calls between other high speed users was great, online gaming with no glitches and I also had other WiFi devices connected at the same time. Plus I had evening and weekend calls. I also never had any loss of service. We my Cyta 2 Mbit connection in Cyprus not only is it not fast enough to handle all that, service drops like 3 times a week for a few minutes or an hour and the price I pay for this c*** is not what I should be getting. I think the government over here just doesn't care about technology and doesn't view it at a priority, since most don't even now how to use it...     

Yeah. You have to realize that you are living in one of the least technologically advanced countries in Europe. Not only is your internet connection slow and expensive, but so is everything else that relates to technology. With such little population, temperatures reaching 45 C and no will or way to develop anything useful, depending mostly on tourism to keep the country's economy going, Cyprus is a doomed country where only patriots, mad people and some others can stand to live in. If you want to surf the net freely and have a choice of what to buy, how much you pay and how you get it, move to a different country in Europe where you are respected and your opinion can be heard and might actually matter and make a difference.
Cheers.