This short article from Fiber to the Home Council pretty much tells you everything you need to know about why communities need Gigabit broadband. In a survey of 2000 households in North America, 70% of those under 35 years of age are using over the top (OTT) video services like Netflix and Hulu, just two of the rapidly proliferating companies providing OTT video.
Even more interesting is that the survey shows the average broadband household has at least FIVE Internet connected devices...and so you have to design the network to support the possibility that all five devices are having video streamed to them at the same time.
Finally, half of the group under 35 have never bought any traditional package of cable/satellite TV.
Repeat and rinse as often as necessary...
TV is dead.
TV is dead.
TV is dead.
TV is dead....you get the idea.