Broadband ADSL to Reach 40 Mbits/s!?

If broadband ADSL is becoming the default type of connection for getting access to internet, optical fiber is becoming a serious competitor as it allows higher transfer speed as well as longer effective range from the central server.
However, a new technology for broadband ADSL might allow ISPs to further boost their ADSL offer and performance, while giving them more time to develop their expensive optical fiber infrastructures. The company Rim Semiconductor claims to have designed new chips able to reach 40 Mbits/s, and even more impressive such transfer speed could be maintained till 1.7km from the central server. First trials have been launched in Oregon, USA.
This technology might be the way to bring broadband internet to all citizen, even those located far away from the central server.