Gigabit First Nation by 2030

I have been writing about the growing need for uploads and how they are redefining the broadband landscape — first in We Are Now An Upload (Broadband) Nation and then in a quick follow-up. As a follow-up to those pieces, today I wanted to highlight research from Omdia, which predicts that residential households subscribing to gigabit broadband will nearly double from about one-third in 2025 to 60% by 2030. That is a majority of American homes on gigabit pipes within five years. The implications are straightforward. More gigabit subscribers mean more headroom for upstream usage to grow. The OpenVault data we have been watching already shows that fiber subscribers use 87% more upstream bandwidth than DOCSIS subscribers on the same systems. I will repeat Om’s Axiom: Give people the pipe and the speeds, and the behavior follows. April 27, 2026