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Soundwave on 21 April 2016
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mizzou_guy 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. 

You have to understand that it is easier for these companies to develop the new fiber networks in the urban areas than it is in rural or even smaller cities due to return of investment ratios.  Laying fiber is expensive, so the more densily populated an area is, the more financially it makes sense for these companies to offer these services.  Land-wise, urban areas are much smaller than the rest of the country, so that return on investment goes way down once you exit the metro populations.  Perhaps the existing cable option can help, but I still think it's going to be an extremely long time before we see a streaming only offering from anybody, as it would alienate too many users.

In 10 years I think everyone will have it even urban areas. The tech that Comcast has doesn't even require fiber optic it just requires a new modem. 

Japan is spreading quickly, in fact Sony themselves is one of the leading ISPs offering ultra high speed. Yoshida probably knows whats coming. 

Playstation Now was always a test run for the future I think. Maybe there will be a physical PS5, but even that I think will be entirely optional. 

To be honest it's far more lucrative to let people spend that money on games anyway ... with no hardware cost, you could have 3-4 extra games sold per game player, that would be a dramatic boost to attach rates.