True. Let's call 5gbps over cable a last ditch attempt to offer fibre-expense plans to places cable companies have no intention of upgrading to fibre. They'll s

True. Let's call 5gbps over cable a last ditch attempt to offer fibre-expense plans to places cable companies have no intention of upgrading to fibre. They'll start by using fibre as a way of raising prices across the board, of course ... and that's what we really rebel against. It's not the bandwidth available as much as how there's a line in other countries (as shown in those graphs) of 100mbps speeds for under $40. We'll never see that for a good 10 years here... if ever. They do want to say that "today's speeds are good enough" -- read as: we're not dropping prices anytime soon for current speeds.