[sailormoon]

Canberra, Australia: TransACT, an Australian service provider, is trailing a network with speeds of up to 1 Gbps for residential customers.

Uh-huh. What's the quota (bandwidth limit)? Knowing Australia, it's something like 30GB/month, meaning that theoretically you could burn through your entire monthly allocation in under 5 minutes.

iiNet and Internode are also playing around with fibre in some new housing estates, here's an internode pricelist:

http://www.internode.on.net/pdf/products/home-fibre-pricelis... [PDF]

Oh boy, $99 a month for 15GB of data, but it's delivered really quickly!