This is surprising. My university (DA-IICT) in Gandhinagar, India has had a 1 Gbps internet connection for quite some time now (over a year). Of course, the bandwidth is distributed and no individual gets all of it. I am not sure about the ISP, but I think it is BSNL, an Indian state-owned telecommunications company.

I think educational institutions are provided with high speed connections at subsidized rates by the BSNL, while other private companies had an upper bound on the max bandwidth they can get. The original post must be about the removal of this constraint.