>Of course people don’t utilize their upload speed: it’s miserably slow!
The average internet user's bandwidth usage is always going to be asymmetrical, since the average internet user is downloading a lot more than they produce. One or two streaming movies on something like Netflix (15% of worldwide downstream usage by itself) will completely blow away a few video calls.
Try to enumerate the use cases for high upload rates, and you find that most of them simply won't apply to most users.
The average internet user's bandwidth usage is always going to be asymmetrical, since the average internet user is downloading a lot more than they produce. One or two streaming movies on something like Netflix (15% of worldwide downstream usage by itself) will completely blow away a few video calls.
Try to enumerate the use cases for high upload rates, and you find that most of them simply won't apply to most users.