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Vermont now has 10 Gbps internet for $400 per month By Tim Schiesser on June 9, 2015, 7:15 AM If you're lucky enough to live in Springfield, Vermont, you now have access to a ridiculously fast 10 Gbps fiber internet connection for $400 per month thanks to local service provider Vermont Telephone (VTel). Around 18,000 homes and business in Springfield can sign up to VTel's 10 Gbps speed tier now that the company has almost finished their roll-out of high speed fiber. VTel previously offered customers a mere 1 Gbps for $59.95 per month, although that excellent deal is still available if a user doesn't want to fork out a premium for much faster internet speeds. VTel has been able to connect every home in the area to fiber thanks to an $85 million grant from the US Department of Agriculture’s Rural Utilities Service, while simultaneously decommissioning its older copper network. The fiber rollout will be completed by June 30th this year, "on budget and on schedule". Customers on VTel's fiber network are subject to a 2.5 TB data cap per month, although the company apparently enforces this cap liberally. Most home users won't approach anywhere near this sort of data usage per month, and will struggle to take full advantage of a 10 Gbps connection with just a few household users. However, thanks to this 10 Gbps internet rollout, residents of Springfield, Vermont are now able to access the internet at speeds exceeding even the fastest residential networks around the globe. Residents in many other cities throughout the United States don't even have access to 10 Mbps, let alone 10 Gbps, while in countries such as Australia, average connection speeds hover around the 4 Mbps mark. While a 10 Gbps internet connection will allow you to download a 1 GB file in less than a second, if you're stuck on just 4 Mbps, the same file will take over 30 minutes to download.
Let's see, how can most Springfield residents afford the bill to acquire this service? Rob the Rite-Aid pharmacy? Rob the Irving station? Rob a local savings and loan? Become a distributor for the Jersey Boys? Obtain a sweetheart retirement deal from Health Care and Rehabilitation Services of Southeastern Vermont? Oh well, whichever option they pursue, at least they'll be able to read about it on the internet via their lightning fast connection?
ReplyDeleteThis is a preposterous announcement that shines the light yet again on the outlandish wastefulness of federal government subsidies, which in this case are delivering more unaffordable services to a region that has little use for them!
Didn't Mr. Guite ( Enron) get this money free from the Stimulus package Tax money? Why is he able to charge for what we gave him? $400. is almost 1/3 of my income. Must be nice to be rich.
Delete$400 per month must be a typo. $40.00 ???
ReplyDeleteThis is not intended for homes, although you can subscribe if you would like. Businesses are becoming more and more dependent on increasingly fast internet speeds to support functionality and efficiency.
ReplyDeleteWhere would this country have been if there wasn't a Rural Electrification Project in the 30's and 40's? Federal support wired the country and allowed expansion of our economy and population. There are people, especially people who work in video and high bandwith music who live locally and may very well take advantage of this product. So, maybe it is not for you, but, the fact that it was picked up by this tech newsletter suggests it is worth someone's attention.
This is the equivalent of connecting a pipeline to a well that's just run dry. A momentous achievement with little benefit other than to the contractor that got rich building it.
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