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Portland spent a lot of time and resources (during a serious housing crisis), bent over backwards to give them everything they wanted... and they decide to just

Portland spent a lot of time and resources (during a serious housing crisis), bent over backwards to give them everything they wanted... and they decide to just punk out, lay off their operations team and walk away from years of planning because they can "do fast wireless for some apartment buildings". Thanks, guys. There's a tiny ISP (US Internet) in Minneapolis that's already wired half of the city with fiber with some loans as capital, they're not a public company and they don't have billions in CoH and they still figured it out. They've already started offering 10Gbps to home users. Yes, ten gigabits, that's not a typo. And they're profitable. Laying fiber is impossible for a megacorp with billions of CoH and access to the overflowing "talent" of Silicon Valley like Google perhaps, but not for a small business like US Internet. Let's hope Portland gets a US Internet of it's own. We're all better off if the future of the web is built by smaller decentralized companies anyways.

josh_carterPDX 10y ago
That's awesome. I absolutely hope they come to Portland as this city loves to support the underdog. :)
2trill2spill 10y ago
> There's a tiny ISP (US Internet) in Minneapolis that's already wired half of the city with fiber with some loans as capital, they're not a public company and they don't have billions in CoH and they still figured it out. They've already started offering 10Gbps to home users. Yes, ten gigabits, that's not a typo. And they're profitable. That's not entirely correct they have about a quarter of the city wired with plans to finish in 6 or 7 years[1]. The linked image is pretty small but it's all I can find. Note the linked map only shows 40% or so of Minneapolis. Also they have been providing Business services like dark fiber for the last 20 years, so it's not like they are completely dependent on home fiber income or new to the business. I just recently got US Internet fiber, we have the 100 Mbps plan for $39.95 a month and it's great! I noticed that when I ping 8.8.8.8 latency went down from 33ms to 22ms. Also we have more bandwidth and cheaper internet than when we had Comcast. Of course the best part of US Internet is not having to deal with Comcast anymore! Finally US Internet forced Century Link and Comcast to launch their own fiber services[2]. [1] https://fiber.usinternet.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Screen-Shot-2016-09-19-at-3.02.22-PM.png https://fiber.usinternet.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Scre... [2] http://www.fiercetelecom.com/telecom/comcast-fires-back-at-centurylink-us-internet-2-gbps-launch-minneapolis http://www.fiercetelecom.com/telecom/comcast-fires-back-at-c...

josh_carterPDX 10y ago

That's awesome. I absolutely hope they come to Portland as this city loves to support the underdog. :)

2trill2spill 10y ago

> There's a tiny ISP (US Internet) in Minneapolis that's already wired half of the city with fiber with some loans as capital, they're not a public company and they don't have billions in CoH and they still figured it out. They've already started offering 10Gbps to home users. Yes, ten gigabits, that's not a typo. And they're profitable. That's not entirely correct they have about a quarter of the city wired with plans to finish in 6 or 7 years[1]. The linked image is pretty small but it's all I can find. Note the linked map only shows 40% or so of Minneapolis. Also they have been providing Business services like dark fiber for the last 20 years, so it's not like they are completely dependent on home fiber income or new to the business. I just recently got US Internet fiber, we have the 100 Mbps plan for $39.95 a month and it's great! I noticed that when I ping 8.8.8.8 latency went down from 33ms to 22ms. Also we have more bandwidth and cheaper internet than when we had Comcast. Of course the best part of US Internet is not having to deal with Comcast anymore! Finally US Internet forced Century Link and Comcast to launch their own fiber services[2]. [1] https://fiber.usinternet.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Screen-Shot-2016-09-19-at-3.02.22-PM.png https://fiber.usinternet.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Scre... [2] http://www.fiercetelecom.com/telecom/comcast-fires-back-at-centurylink-us-internet-2-gbps-launch-minneapolis http://www.fiercetelecom.com/telecom/comcast-fires-back-at-c...