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Lawlight said:
Soundwave said:

This is today though, you have to understand, 2-3 years ago there were like 2-3 cities total ... AT&T is adding 38 cities this year alone. In 5 years pretty much all the country's urban centers will have ultra high speed and probably a lot of rural areas too. 

Even Comcast ... they've found a way to deliver 1 Gigabit internet through *existing* cable infastructure, no fiber network needed. 

So what's happening now is AT&T, Google, and Comcast are all in competetion with each other, which will cause everything to spread even faster. 

Google Fiber was the spark that set off the dynamite. 

In the meantime, the global average internet speed is 5.6 Mbps.

It won't be forever. Ultra High Speed is rapidly spreading in the two key gaming markets in the USA and Japan. Some European countries are starting to ramp up too. 

I liken it to the situation here like in 1997, pretty much no one had broadband internet. By 2007 everyone and their grandma had it and WIFI to boot. 

The other big difference today is Comcast is using a tech called DOCSIS 3.1 which can get massively more bandwidth from just existing regular cable networks.