Whilst Virgin Media have been paving the way with UK Broadband, with their recent offering of 50Mbit fibre optic cable broadband coming to town - other countries are experiencing far high speeds.
Zon has just announced 1Gbps Broadband to be rolled out in September for Portugal. That's insane!
It's unclear as to whether the 1Gbps is up and down, but the chances are it'll be the fastest in the world either way.