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It can bond 24 but obviously VM could deliver more than 24 and have modems load balance between them.

VM Ireland are doing 360Mb on 16 channels, Comhem have been selling 500Mb on 16 channel devices.

With the exception of Openreach, whose technology isn't shared anyway, many are selling closer to the full bandwidth than before. Hyperoptic for instance start off selling 1Gb on 1Gb backhaul.

VM in the past have sold 20Mb on 38Mb and 100Mb on 154Mb.

If you price the really hard core products high you get low uptake, low uptake means you need less capacity.

While the idea may make some people cringe 600Mb+ via the SH3 is perfectly feasible.

The moment they release DOCSIS 3.1, as a premium product, they can immediately sell a gig. The (up to) 192MHz OFDM block will supply all, or at least most, of what this tier needs. Sell it as a high price and take the PR win.

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Just to mention, with VM rebuilding networks as they are they'll have tons of room for DOCSIS 3.1 channels, something some of Comcast's networks lack.

VM are still using MP2 for video, so the change to MP4 will help a ton there and will recover bandwidth, as will changes to VOD to improve efficiency.

VM have fewer TV channels in use than Comcast.

VM are rebuilding to 1.2GHz. Given they have a bunch of 750MHz networks even without the MP2 and VOD efficiency changes they'll have a ton of spare bandwidth, more than enough to carry gigabits of DOCSIS 3.1 data.