As National Broadband Networks (NBN) tries to deliver a broadband speed of 100Mbps over a planned $43 billion dollar fibre network with great effort and tussle, Alcatel-Lucent announced that Bell Labs, Alcatel's research arm, successfully demonstrated downstream VDSL2 speed of up to 300Mbps covering distances up to 400 meters using DSL Phantom Mode technology instead of a copper wire network comparable to what Telstra has connected to most businesses and homes in Australia.

The revolution will be an additional tool in the store of providers looking to enhance the capacity of bandwidth with existing assets of copper. On the other hand, commercial deployments are unlikely to be seen until 2012 the least. Temporarily, vectoring, bonding, and other technical developments are expected to extend the DSL life, which is pleasant news for both DSL consumers and vendors.

According to an article in Smarthouse.com.au, an analyst at Ovum, Kamalini Ganguly, said "The timeline for the benefits of these DSL developments to reach the market remains a challenge. Bonding trials were held by Alcatel-Lucent in November 2009 and vectoring field trials are scheduled later this year. We may see commercial deployments of these two technologies in the next couple of years."