Where's my gigabit Internet, anyway?

For Americans used to roughly 10Mbps broadband connections, the idea of gigabit Internet can feel a little like science fiction. Streaming 4K video without hiccups? Enormous file downloads happening in seconds? Oh, sure.
And while you might think businesses would be eyeing very-high-speed residential Internet connections as a boon to a workforce that increasingly prefers to work at home, the truth is that it’s not that big a deal, at this point.
 
Matt Davis, an analyst at IDC, said that a gigabit connection is overkill for the tasks most home-based workers in the U.S. perform.
“Unless you’re doing medical imaging, or you have to run extraordinarily high-quality telepresence like video conferencing sessions or something like that, you’re not going to need anywhere near a gig,” he said.
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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