Reuters report that largely focuses on wireless broadband and smartphones is an interesting note. According to Reuters, AT&T "plans a residential broadband trial in June to allow Web surfing at speeds of 80 megabits per second." That's of course much faster than AT&T's top speed of 24 Mbps for their U-Verse service. However, it's not clear those speeds are even possible for most AT&T users given the company's decision to save money and use fiber to the node.
Right now I am getting VDSL2 Line 1 (inner wire pair) Down Max User Rate 43512 kbs. Now If ATT could find way to somehow magically Increase my VDSL2 Speeds to accommodate speeds of 80 megabits. I would upgrade in heart beat to the new tier. But I highly doubt I will ever see this speed tier ever made available to me, Not until ATT Switch to FTTH from FTTN.
So here is that so-called magic Technology Vectoring, originally championed by ECI Telecom Ltd. and standardized by
the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) as G.vector last month
and as profile 17a in the DSL family, is a big improvement even on its
own, delivering 100 percent gain over standard VDSL2 in Alcatel-Lucent's
trials when it was applied to all pairs in a bundle. Others, including
both ECI and Ericsson AB, have demonstrated similar improvements in
trials. But vectoring gets a big boost if it's combined with
phantom-mode operation. Combined, these techniques should deliver at
least 100 Mbit/s on loops up to 1km long.
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