Next-Gen Broadband Primer

Aaron writes "Broadband Reports has a good read on the real deal behind next generation broadband deployments. In four years: half all Verizon DSL users should have fiber, half of all SBC subscribers should have 10-20Mbps DSL, and one tenth of all BellSouth customers should have 50Mbps DSL. At the same time cable companies should begin deploying DOCSIS 3.0 technology in 2006, eventually bringing 100Mbps speeds to end users."

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[MandoSKippy]

I guess it really is time buy stock in the adult entertainment industry... mainly web sites ;)

Qwest customers?

[SuperKendall]

...half all Verizon DSL users should have fiber, half of all SBC subscribers should have 10-20Mbps DSL, and one tenth of all BellSouth customers should have 50Mbps DSL.

And what will Qwest customers get?

Why, they get the shaft!

Qwests idea of fiber to the curb is to leave a bran muffin on your sidewalk every day for just $50 a month.

This just in...

[nrlightfoot]

And the cable companies will still only give you 32kb of upstream.

Re:I'll believe when I see it...

[Anonymous Coward]

Except for other broadband users, all on kazaa/bittorrent/whatever will be hot in 2006. Of course, we're ignoring legal uses of the bandwidth like hosting websites, and camwhores will finally get to use something better than 320x240 5fps video.

You? Rural? Ha!

[HomerJayS]

Be thankful that you even have DSL. Real rural Americans have no broadband options available at all. To us, hopping in the car, going into work, downloading to CD/Flash, and driving back home is the closest we get to broadband.

Interesting trend

[one9nine]

In four years: half all Verizon DSL users should have fiber

It seems high speed internet is causing a sharp increase in incontinence.