Ultra-fast broadband hits Europe

For Rainer Kinnunen, life has been a bit of a blur since he signed up for a super-high-speed Internet service three years ago. ¶ The 31-year-old Swedish student's computer has supplanted the television as the most vital link between his home and the outside world. He watches television shows and movies, makes phone calls, surfs the Web and plays multiplayer shoot 'em-up games through his high-speed connection -- often doing one or more activities at once. ¶ Kinnunen's 10-megabit-per-second service from telecommunications company Bredbandsbolaget is up to 20 times faster than conventional cable modems, enabling a user to download a two-hour movie in a matter of minutes rather than hours. ... ZDNet UK Insight link