
and split ratio [13, 55], and competitive pricing the cost per subscriber will likely
continue moving downward toward the $1000 target.
10.8 FUTURE BANDWIDTH ADVANCEMENTS
While technology advancements are helping to bring infrastructure and operations
costs down, they also introduce the potential for increased user bandwidth perfor-
mance. This is fortuitous, as the cycle of user technology adoption points toward a
10-fold increase in user bandwidth by 2010 to 100 Mb/s per user [56] for a few
million users, and 5 years later to 1 Gb/s per user [57] with a similar user base.
These changes in the industry and in user needs are going to drive the technologies ...