http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/09/want-gigabit-fiber-home-internet-move-to-one-of-these-cities/
Want gigabit fiber home Internet? Move to one of these cities Google Fiber isn't the only gigabit option, but you may still be out of luck. by Jon Brodkin - Sept 26 2013, 12:26pm EDT NETWORKING 113 Everyone in the KC region wants one of these trucks to show up at their house sooner rather than later. Cyrus Farivar Google Fiber has made gigabit Internet speeds seem tantalizingly within reach of so many Americans… unfortunately, it's just not available to most of us. But Internet service providers in various cities are promising gigabit fiber to the home with increasing frequency. Just this week, regional mobile ISP C Spire announced a competition to select a Mississippi community for gigabit service. Last week, an ISP in Chattanooga, Tennessee dropped its gigabit prices to $70 a month. So just where do you have to live to get gigabit speeds? Let's take a look at (mostly US) cities and regions that provide gigabit service to residents or have it in the works. Note that gigabit service isn't necessarily available to all or even most of the homes in these cities. If we missed any, let us know. Kansas City: As you no doubt know by now, Google Fiber is available in parts of Kansas City in Kansas and Missouri for $70 a month. Google plans to bring the service to Austin, Texas, and Provo, Utah as well. While not all gigabit services provide symmetrical service (a gigabit for both download and upload speed), Google Fiber does. Vancouver, British Columbia: This is one of the luckiest cities around, with two gigabit Internet ISPs. Shaw is selling gigabit service to small parts of Vancouver for $115 per month, while a newcomer called OneGigabit is wiring up some apartment and condo buildings and charging each customer $45 to $65. Springfield, Vermont: With a lot of government assistance, VTel recently started deploying gigabit Internet and phone service to as many as 17,500 customers in its rural service area. The price is the best part: customers only have to pay $48 a month for the cheapest package that includes gigabit. VTel officially places a monthly bandwidth cap of 2.5TB on customers, but it says it generally lets them go well over that without penalty.
And yet people from Springfield will still complain it is too expensive.
ReplyDeleteI called vtel several times over the last year to get a price. I have comcast basic cable and internet for 80 bucks. vtel requires bundling with phone and they say the price is 70 something bucks. so vtel takes government money and requires bundling. I have a cell phone, dont need a land line and dont want to be forced to pay for it. i'm thinking of hiring a lawyer to investigate the bundling when gov money is used for internet access. vtel is a rip, comcast cable is pretty darn fast and i get basic tv stations.
ReplyDeleteSo your ripped at a company that has obtained federal funds for infrastructure improvement, but you apparently are unbothered that a likely majority of Springfielders are collecting some form of government entitlement. What absolutely brilliant hypocrisy.
DeleteYa we pay for 7:26's cable. Its in the welfare bundle. Its below the premium package offered at the local prison for free though
DeleteI contacted a government watch dog legal group about the forced bundling from vtel. I want to sue vtel to return the government money or they can provide bare internet, their choice.
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