Five years ago this week… Modem chip start-up Sckipio looked set to give AT&T the trigger for another broadband revolution. Sckipio’s Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation (DBA) in G.fast was poised to take control of coaxial cable from US cablecos and place it in the hands of telcos, with AT&T seeming to be at the front of the queue. AT&T’s average speeds topped out at 50 Mbps in 2016 – an embarrassment compared to the 300 Mbps to 500 Mbps offered by cablecos. But DBA offered a truly flexible bi-directional line, which could switch the direction of almost all its bandwidth depending on a customer’s needs. This laid the groundwork for AT&T to take over coax in MDUs, potentially expanding its static…