Any future improvements to VDSL2+ speeds?

Got BT Infinity 2, with a 80/20 sync speed as shown in the router stats page, but it also shows a max attainable rate of 140Mb down and 43Mb Up. This shows that the DSLAM (Mines a Huawei DSLAM) can go faster than what Openreach will run it at. Any reason why Openreach dont offer faster than 80/20 speeds on normal FTTC barring G.Fast? Will they ever increase the tops speeds from the cab?

Possibly due to the impact on other lines. Getting you full speed might mean someone else losing speed.

To go faster and actually have ISPs able to sell faster would need vectoring on all the cabinets. That means replacing the ECIs with a different model and installing a new card into the Huawei kit.

Openreach have G.fast available to a million properties already, give or take, and will be covering 10 million by 2020, alongside 3 million of FTTP. Absolutely no business case to reduce take up of ultrafast by spending money enhancing the superfast.

If it were going to happen it would've a while ago.

Any idea on the rough capital and labour costs of a G.Fast pod attached to a PCP?

As I've posted before, they seem to be a complete white elephant, as the only people able to receive them can already get 80/20 or not far short. Quite how they are going to cover 10 million properties and get anything like a positive ROI is incomprehensible.

I always found this bizarre. Having the G.Fast 'pod' in the footway chamber installed close to properties with slower speeds can benefit from the G.Fast speeds was a fantastic idea, yet it never took off. Sure I understand there's more difficulties getting power etc. but still cheaper than rolling out full FTTP.

Surely the take-up would be much greater? I know that I'd jump at the opportunity on my 35-40mb speeds, people on lower even more so. Whereas if I was on the full 80/20, I most likely wouldn't. I used to get close to this at my old house and it was plenty fast enough for everything I needed.

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

Any idea on the rough capital and labour costs of a G.Fast pod attached to a PCP?

As I've posted before, they seem to be a complete white elephant, as the only people able to receive them can already get 80/20 or not far short. Quite how they are going to cover 10 million properties and get anything like a positive ROI is incomprehensible.

Yup. I was saying that from the start. As a cheap(er) way to extend VDSL in rural areas and not-spot they made some sense - perhaps a pod on a lampost to serve half a dozen properties - but as 'the next big thing' they seem like a failure.

Lamp-post vdsl pods will probably still happen as the tech evolves, but as a way of filling in areas with poor speeds rather than a mass deployment.

In reply to a post by arfster:

Lamp-post vdsl pods will probably still happen as the tech evolves, but as a way of filling in areas with poor speeds rather than a mass deployment.

There isn't a "mass deployment" though. Takeup will be tiny for at least several years. At the moment, a waste of man-time and money.

Even where people can get 80/20 a large number go for 55/10 or 40/10. Paying more for bragging rights isn't what many people do.

Many FTTP connections still only take 80/20 or less .....

And that's the fun bit figuring out where people will pay more for faster and deploying there...