"Verion's FiOS already passes 12.2 million homes and could...

"Verion's FiOS already passes 12.2 million homes and could easily scale past 100Mbps today if the company wanted to do so (the company said today that it can "currently" deliver "up to 400Mbps to all customers" if it so desired). Cable already offers high-speed Internet to 120 million US homes, and inexpensive DOCSIS 3.0 upgrades have already brought 50Mbps and 100Mbps speeds to millions."

"The real issue here is not availability, but uptake. Of the 12.2 million homes passed by FiOS, for instance, only 3.43 million have subscribed to the service. And, while cable already reaches millions with blazing speeds, most people are still taking much slower speed tiers."

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/02/fcc-wants-260-million-people-on-100mbps-broadband-by-2020.ars

"The real issue here is not availability, but uptake"

Why does Labor want to force something on a whole population when most people don't want it? Why is the uptake in the U.S, the most technically advanced nation in the world, so low? Because it doesn't offer value for money!