Those numbers probably vastly inflated (The FCC defines access only by zip-code, and there were many zipcodes with just a few homes given access to broadband to

Those numbers probably vastly inflated (The FCC defines access only by zip-code, and there were many zipcodes with just a few homes given access to broadband to game the numbers for many years), and "Access" is not the same as "having" to many, especially as services that take advantage of gigabit have not yet become available, in a chicken->egg problem. There's an interesting condundrum - I want my parents to have instant access to a variety of photos and videos that I produce, and for a while it looked like fiber networks were going to be the way - I'd host a home fileserver, and they'd be able to stream whatever they wanted to me from there. But my home internet speeds have actually gone down over the years - Was on a 100mbit connection, and now the plan is '50/50' that rarely achieves more than 10 up. The cloud has become the distribution network, and it makes a lot of sense in many ways - It also works as a handy backup mechanism, and I trust 'cloud' services to keep good copies of my data more than I trust the second hard-drive I used to keep around.