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Worth checking again

Fiber to the Home Council, claiming cable can't deliver 100 meg. "This approach was used by Senator Rockefeller and Representative Eshoo in authoring resolutions41 in the 110th Congress that called for the United States to have universal access to 100 Mbps, bidrectional broadband service - effectively all fiber access plant - by 2015." (Emphasis added.)

DOCSIS 3.0 is designed to go up to a full gigabit, both directions, with 320 meg chips already sampling. The gig will almost certainly be available before 2015. It's shared, but on most networks should easily deliver 100 Mbps 95% or even 99% of the time, if that's what the government mandates. In practice, few people are drawing 100  meg or even a large fraction of that much of the time. (I agree fiber is better, but if cable can deliver 50 meg for under $100/home and fiber costs $1,000 reasonable policy might choose either.)