But not until those that own the bandwidth find a way to create new revenue streams for the increased capacity.
Why would they do it before then? What is the motivation? Altruism? Hardly.
It’s not a matter of altrusim. The FCC and Congress are pressuring the cable companies to maintain analog service for now, so the bandwidth is tied up for now. That makes sense for a transitional period, but our long-term prospects will be better if the analog service is shut down sooner than later. Digital converters are available for analog TV owners, so their old sets can continue to work after analog broadcast/cable is shut down for good.
There is revenue streams there. Comcast is already putting in their own video on demand servers. They want their users using only Comcast servers for content and then to charge other content providers extra for their content going over Comcast fiber. They would be making money from their content and on what non Comcast content they allow on their network. That is Comcast, TWC, Verizon and at&t’s main goal. That is what net neutrality is all about. It is also why Cuban is fighting against the big ISPs since he would be one of those being charged extra for his content, from HDNet, going over ISP networks.