Two important points you leave out: 1G is the max available in many large cities in the US, if that. I live in one and that's the best I can get (residential).

Two important points you leave out: 1G is the max available in many large cities in the US, if that. I live in one and that's the best I can get (residential). My "1G" (fiber) is definitely _not_ 1G most of the time, because it's shared (as the article points out).