People dont NEED a 50mb connection. Its nice for techies and heavy internet users (less than 1% of the US population), and eventually for small to mid cap business'.
Remember, even though we blog and chat on a website that is heavily broadband informatio based, the general population still doesnt need anything above DSL speeds, if high speed at all (15 million dial up users, still?).
Which is why about 17% of available addresses have ordered UTOPIA services despite almost zero marketing? Because only 1% of users demand that level of service?