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Even if that is deployed, only 10% of their customers will actually be able to get it. The global IP traffic is heavy on download, not upload. Even with video conferencing, file sharing and backups, content production like YouTube, and social media sharing of photos and videos, the upload speeds provided by ISP are more than enough to handle those applications. There are no applications that require anything symmetrical, and until they do it almost doesn't make sense. While it's nice to have, your still going to be heavy on download than upload.

There are white papers out there that show data static patterns globally. A stat from Cisco suggests

"With the exception of short-form video and video calling, most forms of Internet video do not have a large upstream component. As a result, traffic is not becoming more symmetric, a situation that many expected when user-generated content first became popular. The emergence of subscribers as content producers is an extremely important social, economic, and cultural phenomenon, but subscribers still consume far more video than they produce. Upstream traffic has been slightly declining as a percentage for several years.

It appears likely that residential Internet traffic will remain asymmetric for the next few years."


Also another note is how Telus deploys fiber. While it is to the home, it is shared between 32 homes. The ports are 1 backhaul at 2.x Gbps split between 32 homes all fibre. If they offered 150/150 to those 32 homes, sustained throughout wouldn't be possible if everyone was maxing out their speeds. The way they market purefibre is impressive because it makes a customer believe they have a dedicated 1 Gbps fibre pipe all the way back to their core and is not shared. That isn't the case.