http://money.cnn.com/2016/05/16/technology/gfast-internet-speeds/index.html?iid=ob_homepage_tech_pool

A company called Sckipio is introducing a new tech called G.Fast in the US which allows for ultra high speed broadband over existing phone and coax lines, this is significant because it doesn't require new fiber optic wires to have to be laid down (which is costly and would take a long time). 

AT&T and DirecTV are very interested, it currently allows for 750MB/sec download/upload which is a lot faster but the company is claiming they will have new chips that can push that even further to 1.5GB/sec, which would be faster than even Google Fiber. Upload speeds aren't as fast on 750MB/sec, but they should improve considerably with the 1.5GB/sec chips. In any case this is likely waaaaay faster than the internet 99% of us use today. 

Streaming service video games and 4K video services via streaming are likely to become very commonplace going forward. The company behind the tech says they will start rolling it out later this year in the US. 

Of course AT&T would be interested. People are cutting land lines left and right, and this would allow it to sale those home phone and Internet packages it so desperately wants you to think you need.

Color me interested, and not even necessarily for the speed. I care more about prices and competition. The more options out there for the customer, the better.

Really interesting. Hope this gets implemented worldwide as soon as possible.

Sounds good.

And, you know, obvious.

Heard about it some years ago (I think they even use it already in some countries for a few people?). I would be happy to have it where I live since I get only like 35Mb per second.

Btw you got something wrong in your post. You wrote 750MB/s and 1.5GB/s but it should be 750Mb/s and 1.5Gb/s. 750MB/s is even for that tech too fast. 

Pretty significant improvement, hopefully it gets implemented as soon as possible.

LOL.

Worldwide implementation shouldn't be tough if it takes off in the US.

It would just be using existing internet infrastructure so other countries could quickly adopt this.

Though other countries are already ahead of the US in terms of ultra high speed internet (Japan for one). 

Okay this sounds really cool but there are a few things:
1. Obviously, how much does it cost.
2. This seems more like a bandwidth increase (for like 30 PCs) than an actual speed increase because at 1.5 GB/s you are going to be pushing the very upper limits of what a source can actually provide to you anyway.

I see your point.