I am the poster of this article: I found this particular article actually exciting. Why? I had no idea Verizon was laying fiber directly to customers and allowing all that bandwidth to be used at a very reasonable cost. I was very dissappointed, though, when I found out that the service is not yet available for my location. The big news for startups here: cheaper bandwidth! (maybe its available at your location?), and potentially a growing base of users with large bandwidth which will change the kinds of services that can be provided.