What are the prospects for xDSL?

Question

Computer networks

Good evening!
Tell me, please, what are the prospects for xDSL and what is the alternative (fixed networks and wireless)?

Answer 1

In the US, xDSL began to be built earlier than in the Russian Federation.
And that is why in the USA xDSL still cannot die out.
In large cities, there is economic sense. There are enough new customers (or you can win over enough old customers with xDSL)
There is no economic sense in small towns - xDSL will remain there for a long time to come.
Another thing is if the Internet came to a small city quite late - then it most likely came not via xDSL, but in other ways.
But if xDSL already exists, then it will be.

Answer 2

Massively xDSL will die out, but in some specific cases, there will still be application. I know an office where FTN is still working on dialup.
The alternative is optics. Radio channels provide greater mobility, but at the cost of channel reliability.

Answer 3

xDSL has a whole bunch of alternatives, both wired optical types and wireless ones.
The whole point is that sometimes there are no alternatives at all! For example, a landfill in a stone desert, where cables have been laid to a depth of 3 meters since the days of Uncle Joe. And to shift hundreds of kilometers of wire-voles in the absence of labor force in the form of Zeka - at a cost like that cast-iron bridge to the Crimea. And relays are not always possible and can be installed for a hundred reasons.

Answer 4

None.
DSL will live only where there is no alternative. For example, here they once wrote - "village, wooden house, Rostelecom". The cost of laying optics there is comparable to the price of a good foreign car, and there are hardly even radio channels within sight. That's where DSL will live. Until other alternatives appear, the same 4G / 5G. Its advantages and disadvantages are well known, and every year it will increasingly crawl into a specific area - for example, in our city there is still only one provider of pagers.