Ugh , where is the IRS when you actually need them ? Thanks btw ! <| sep |> Play stupid games . win stupid prizes . <| sep |> Those are costs they impose on themselves . Especially considering how few of those roles are technical . But even with those being counted in , telecos more than overshoot what they need to be considered obscenely profitable . You don ' t get to play the impoverished card when you can afford to hire people to lie for you on record . They are not upon hard times , at all . More to the point however , increasing speeds doesn ' t correlate in any way to staffing costs . Most of the time it ' s just a flag the marketing department likes to keep a tight grip on . Most everyone in the city could have faster internet with the infrastructure we already have if the arbitrary limits were lifted and no , it wouldn ' t be pandemonium . Either because what you say is true and most people don ' t use over 10 mbit consistently , or what I say is true and we just don ' t fully provision all the capacity . It could even be a bit of both . The point is , the market is artificially restricted . Most subscribers are barely saturating what VDSL 2 is capable of . If the third parties actually had unfettered access , they ' d gladly prove it . So much misinformation . And usually just the tears of gamers who might know a bit on the topic , but are more informed by marketing . Stazy , I suspect you are in industry , so that doesn ' t include you