The irony though is that if you are building FTTN new as much of AT&T has been doing the last decade and a half, it's not that much harder to at the same time push all the extra few dozen feet into the Home for FTTH, which Verizon figured out years back and AT&T only finally got a clue much more recently.
(AT&T also hurts their case by charging basically the exact same prices for bad POTS DSL and FTTN DSL, despite the huge variance in speeds, and tend to be not entirely forthright about which option is serviced to a particular address, leaving a lot of US consumers with an overall distrust of DSL.)
And the cable companies already had a high bandwidth (at least for ~2000) transmission line to most houses in America.
Notably, Verizon tried with FIOS, but it wasn't that profitable. Most people stuck with cable internet, even if it was slower.
This means it offers 100 Mbit service, but at my house it actually maxes out at 8 Mbit.
That's probably the device you're looking for.
It’s also true that a requirement when buying our house was “less than a mile from the CO”. More recently (like ~ 10 years ago) they put a DSLAM 2 blocks from my house.
Although fiber is available nearby (and further from the CO), they’re not going to wire our neighborhood anytime soon.
The US problem is no Local loop unbundeling and forced sharing of Central Office space