[houseabsolute]

I know this isn't Reddit so hopefully there will be no whining to preempt here. But I just want to point out that except for two cases on this list, these are just pilot programs, and of the production installations only Sweden's seems widely available.

[henrikschroder]

I seem to remember that there are several places in Japan where you can get it from a commercial provider.

I also remember being envious of some friends up north in Sweden in Luleå that lived in some sort of student apartments where they had 100/100Mbit connections back in 2000 or so, and I think they got upgraded to gigabit, but that's sort of special since it was subsidized by the university to attract students.

You also have people like Peter Löthberg (heavily involved in connecting SUNET to the internet in the 80s) who installed a 40Gb connection at his mother's as an experiment to see how she would use it.

Anyway, there's very little general availability, there's a few limited municipal networks that have the capacity for gigabit. 100/100Mbit is available for a lot of people, and everyone living in a larger city can get 20/3Mbit dsl or cable or similar.

I saw that one cable company has started rolling out 100Mbit, so that'll pressure the existing 100Mbit providers to up their bandwidth.

[stse]

For anyone who knows Swedish, I can recommend (the free) book "De som byggde Internet i Sverige" (They built the Internet in Sweden) http://www.isoc.se/index.php?option=com_content&view=art...