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I think it'll depend on who you're catering to. If you're only worried about hosting a small bandwidth site to a moderate amount of traffic, then no problem. However, if you're going to be serving out picture/movie galleries or live feeds to a shit load of people, then the hosts will still be valuable.
At one time, I thought I might be able to serve at least some of my own sites with our sDSL. That time was very short lived because the rest of the net caught up pretty fast and just one surfer with a cable modem could tie up the whole line.
There is the time factor, of course. If the home speeds were serving out at 1Gbit (something the company doesn't say it will even be a capability) then 20 high speed vistors at once would be okay... since they'd all have their downloads done in a blip or there'd be plenty room for a few simultaneous feeds without problem.
If this new Gbit home-line is going to be anything like our local cable company (Comacast) then I want nothing to do with it. Those guys are out to dominate, crush and destroy any other options for data/media delivery. Not to say the local telco doesn't have a wee bit of leverage by owning most of the local copper loops, but it's pretty aggressive and downright ugly. The cable companies won't even allow a competeing product to advertise but they tun negative ads constantly. It's like the boneprone family gone mad. I thnk they're out to take over the world!
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