Want a great big hairy problem? Solve broadband

Broadband, in the hands of the telcos, is keeping back the industry. If somehow you can "solve" broadband, making it easy to get an arbitrarily fast Internet connection without using any sort of telco, then you can start booking your retirement plans. It is the "unsolvable" problem like this that people aren't looking at, making it a wide open field for some genius who works out how to do it. Home to home peer to peer laser mesh network anyone?