Helsinki Finland: I have had FTTH 1 Gbps link for years. Price 89€/mo including taxes and all costs and hardware. Now operators are also offer 10G/10G option, if someone really needs it at home. 10 megabits is usually more than anyone actually needs in normal situation. Then you'll notice that some sites are too slow and do not provide data quickly enough. Of course you can fix that by running 100-10000 parallel HTTP sessions, which seems to create DoS situation for most of smaller sites. One image hosting site was so slow, that I decided to mirror it, but actually I took it offline. ;( Remember, if you run out of sockets / sessions before hitting bandwidth limit, you can use multiple public interfaces to get more sockets.

even 10 years ago when we only had dsl with 1MBit i looked in envy to scandinavia with their 10Mbit connections everywhere..

You guys are still far ahead, but today i have 120Mbit at home which is plenty even for a heavy user like me! Still 1Gbit is exciting for me :)

Yeah I wonder where they got that from. Swedish ISPs have had 1 GBps options for years now if you live in a properly equipped apartment complex. Did the original source mean something more specific, and it just got mangled by the reporter?

In the Czech Republic, there is 1Gbps option in some places too, for $50 / month.

Googles Fiber in Kansas City wasnt even the first in America. Chattanooga, Tennessee had the first gigabit network in the country http://chattanoogagig.com/

sonic.net has had a couple of trial locations in CA; Sebastopol is the location I recall. I don't know about the relative timing of their offer.

I believe they were also the/a possible partner when Google was considering 1 Gbps in one or another location in the South Bay. Maybe someone else knows/recalls more about this.

I'm not in the position, myself, but in my opinion, if you are in Northern CA and sonic.net is an option, they deserve your business -- or consideration, at least.

Also in Minneapolis us internet has been doing selective fiber rollout for a year or so. http://fiber.usinternet.com/

I'm pretty sure many developed countries (including those in Asia) have had 1Gbps FTTH for at least a few years now.

What an ignorant author.