That's not quite true. At least in germany, VDSL2 with "supervectoring" profile 35b [1] is routinely used, advertised as 250 Mbit internet service [2].
Technologically it's quite a waste of hardware resources and electric power to put these kind of data rates on old twisted pair copper cables (instead of using fiber everywhere), but that seems to be the status quo here right now.
(And I'd guess that the ratio of people being in need of satellite internet is much lower in germany than it is in the US).
That's not quite true. At least in germany, VDSL2 with "supervectoring" profile 35b [1] is routinely used, advertised as 250 Mbit internet service [2].
Technologically it's quite a waste of hardware resources and electric power to put these kind of data rates on old twisted pair copper cables (instead of using fiber everywhere), but that seems to be the status quo here right now.
(And I'd guess that the ratio of people being in need of satellite internet is much lower in germany than it is in the US).
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDSL#Vplus/35b
[2] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supervectoring