What would you do with 1Gbps to the home?
swombat: 1) High-res voice and video over IP.2) Streaming HD movie rentals3) All-services-in-the-cloud - store even my larger chunks of data (like music, movies, etc) on a cloud service.4) Taking this one step further, if the bandwidth really is that cheap and plentiful (and reliable), this may obsolete the concept of having your own media... Why bother keeping tens of gigabytes of music locally when any song you want can be downloaded in a tenth of a second when you want to listen to it? Why keep even more movies when you can download whatever you want instantly?One of the consequences of this would be to make storage a whole lot cheaper by demolishing the demand for it. Only big cloud providers would bother buying hard drives anymore.5) Why not stream the entire OS experience? Turn every computer into a dumb terminal that just displays images sent by a server that never crashes, never has slowdowns, can scale in parallel indefinitely... could make most applications instant. Never wait for a photoshop filter again. It would turn the OS licensing model on its head.6) Obsolete TV for good - with that much streaming content being that ubiquitous, why would even TV stations bother with broadcasting on the air waves? HD content with personalised ads for everyone.Edit: Note that I am assuming a high-quality 1gbps link - i.e., 50ms latency or so. Not some crazy hack with huge buffering in the ISPs that means that while they technically deliver 1gbps, they only do so for static content downloaded by a lot of people - I don't call that a 1gbps internet link, I call it a TV.