High speed networks like this have been achievable for years. Laboratories and research centers that deal with very large amounts of data (like at the sites where they do particle colliding or where there are super computers for hire) are usually set up with networks so fast that they can transfer 100 Gigabytes per second to other countries and other centers. I think the record is like 136 or something in that ball park.

I'm not sure how deep the telecom companies have their hooks into these fiber optic links now but if it ever became available to the public, they'd screw us big time using lessons learned trying to screw us with the internet for decades.

If they had their way everybody would pay them for use. You'd pay to have a net (or grid or whatever) connection, then pay for the content, then pay for email service (remember digital postage stamps?), then the people who offer the content you're trying to access will have to pay which would turn every site into a subscription site or an advertising spam center to cover the additional costs...etc, etc, etc.

I worry that the days of Net Neutrality are numbered...if you can call what we have now neutral. I can barely make a VOIP call with Vonage these days because my internet provider also has VOIP service and they intentionally de-prioritize any packets that go through my modem which are VOIP and aren't theirs