Comcast to Cover 86% to 88% of Locations with 10 Gbps Symmetrical Home Broadband by 2025

Comcast now plans to deploy symmetrical 10-Gbps capabilities to 50 million homes and businesses by 2025. The significance is that Comcast’s networks pass perhaps 57 million home locations--perhaps 58 million--and perhaps 61 million home and business locations. 

So the 10-Gbps upgrade encompasses perhaps 86 percent to 88 percent of locations. 

So Comcast  is going to be a daunting foe for would-be fiber-to-home providers to compete with, when the general thinking is that the first FTTH network in a market has clear advantages.

But that is looking at physical media, not the reality of network capabilities. If Comcast gets there first with symmetrical 10-Gbps services, it will be hard for FTTH providers to catch up, especially as Comcast adds more fiber-accessed locations to serve business users.

I don’t know about you, but I really do not care what the access media is, if I can get symmetrical 10-Gbps service.