Broadband speeds

Just came across an article that talks about Londoners getting 24mbps (yes, 24 mbps!!!) broadband soon. I just can't imagine what will they do with so much speed... :) And the best part is it is just 20 bucks/month.
But here in India, we are still crawling with respect to so called "Broadband" speeds. The average affordable speed is 256 kbps which is nothing compared to the rest of the world.
I am just waiting for the day where we can reach high speeds without the stupid time/bandwidth limitations.