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Services FTTH?

I'm a big fan of FTTH but it is just a pipe. FTTH has a lot more headroom to support higher speed and is not as constrained upload wise as DSL or Cable,

Can't really compare FTTH and mobile. FTTH is fixed location where the most important criteria is speed. Mobile on the other hand puts a premium on being untethered even it that is at the cost of lower speed.

Higher speed means more realistic images. Higher speed makes teleworking more practical. Immersive teleconferencing/gaming, virtual remote presence, access to massive databases, that sort of stuff.

Differences between the various technologies will most likely have more to do with legacy businesses models then raw technology.

/tom

reply to Bas
Remember with DOCSIS 3.0 you can theoretically bond as many channels together as you need. »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docsis#Speed_tables
So if you want about 1Gbps , like Google says you will, you would bond about 32 channels together. 1.2Gbps download and 0.86Gbps upload There is not a cable modem today that does that, but in theory it can be built. Today the best they can do in the USA reliably is 2 channels. That is why you see so many top speed DOCSIS 3.0 offerings at no more than twice the top speed of the top DOCSIS 2.0 offerings. In 5 years the USA should be able to bond 4 channels reliably. In 10 years the USA should be able to bond 8 channels reliably. In 15 years it should be 16 channels.

OK what do you do with 304Mbps download and 216Mbps upload in ten years? Transfer huge detailed animated models of 1mile high buildings and bills of materials. Create virtual 3D training simulators, run from remote servers, for extremely detailed environments, used by hundreds of trainees simultaneously.

reply to Bas
Technically, Fiber cables have no upper limit. If they switch the hardware you could be doing 10G in no time so I'd say 10G is a possibility in 5-10 yrs... I could not say that with Coax.