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The article missed mentioning Minneapolis, which has been offering symmetric 10Gbps since December, 2014. Residential 10Gbps costs $399/mo, but normal 1Gbps is
by callahad 11y ago
The article missed mentioning Minneapolis, which has been offering symmetric 10Gbps since December, 2014.
Residential 10Gbps costs $399/mo, but normal 1Gbps is quite affordable at $65/mo: http://fiber.usinternet.com/plans-and-prices/plans-for-the-home/ http://fiber.usinternet.com/plans-and-prices/plans-for-the-h...
- dtparr 11y agoAny idea how many people that covers? Looks like just a couple square miles of coverage (roughly eyebyalled). Is that mostly business or residential areas?
- callahad 11y agoAlmost entirely residential; the closest they get to downtown is still about a 10 minute walk. I'm terrible at ballparking these things, but an average block in that area probably has around 15 duplexes/triplexes and 3-4 low-rise apartment buildings with 12-36 units each...
- karlshea 11y agoOne of the founders stated on Reddit that they've wired over 35,000 homes.
- karlshea 11y agoWhat's interesting about USI is that they are funding it all themselves, and growing their fiber installations at a rate that seems sustainable. One of their founders posts fairly regularly on Reddit with updates on construction, and he's pretty open about how things are going. Unfortunately for me I'm about two blocks away from being covered, so I'm hoping they expand my direction next summer.
- protomyth 11y agoIts still pretty limited in the rollout. http://www.scribblemaps.com/maps/view/fiberusi http://www.scribblemaps.com/maps/view/fiberusi It looks like if your rural phone company is good, you'll have faster, cheaper internet before the cities. Given the whole density thing, that's pretty sad.
- rhino369 11y agoA lot of the reason why they'll get superfast internet before everyone else is because they never got sorta-fast internet. It's profitable to build a fibernetwork in areas with no pre-existing cable or DSL service. You know everyone will sign up, they have no other choice. Having a "pretty good" network in cities holds us back from having a better one. Because these companies aren't going to pay to rewire with fiber when they already spent a lot of money on a copper network.
- mikeyouse 11y agoRural areas also got money from the post-GFC stimulus program to build out fiber networks as well. My grandfather's exceptionally rural hunting cabin has GBPS internet from a fiber line installed with stimulus funds.
- canow 11y agosomewhat off-topic but 10Gbps would be pretty hard to fully utilize for the normal user... mosts sites/servers probably won't even send you small files at this speed.