With 5G coming, your neighborhood could get 10Gbps cable broadband

The imminent arrival of 5G wireless with “true mobile broadband” speeds is forcing wired broadband companies to respond, and their next step may be dramatic: 10 Gigabit per second service. At peak, that’s roughly 1,000 times today’s basic broadband speeds — fast enough to download a full HD movie in less time than it took to read this sentence. By design, that’s also fast enough to leave 5G’s promise of 1Gbps speeds in the dust for years to come.

Hold on a second: Does anyone really need 10Gbps service? For most things people do with home broadband today, it’s overkill, which is why almost no one has that sort of service at home. But as 4K and 8K movies, high-resolution VR, and UHD game streaming from cloud servers grow in popularity, high-bandwidth home internet service will become necessary. (You can visualize the speed difference for yourself using the meter in the middle of this page.)