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Who's supplying the gigabit fiber connectivity, out there? P.S. Answered my own question. Information may be out of date, but quite limited coverage resident

Who's supplying the gigabit fiber connectivity, out there? P.S. Answered my own question. Information may be out of date, but quite limited coverage residential plans from a couple of companies, and somewhat more but still limited coverage from a few companies business class offers. Wish I had that many choices. ATT finally dropped a fiber line into our neighborhood, but it's not hooked up yet. Given what Comcast is doing to its cable Internet pricing, here, I'm a bit afraid to see the pricing ATT will offer us. By contrast, pricing out there looks significantly better. Prior to this, our local copper trunk has been so old/deteriorated that DSL was marginal at best (they wouldn't sell it) and Uverse was a non-starter. I might not want to be in Manhattan, KS, but I can think of some other towns -- maybe I need to look again.

eventualhorizon 9y ago
AT&T dropped fiber in my front yard too. I ignored it for a few months because previously they only offered bundles with tv and telephone and crappy speeds to boot. A coworker told me he was getting symmetric gigabit from AT&T for $70/month so I decided to check them out. I switched from Comcast and everything has been awesome except for the supplied wireless router. My iDevices will not work reliably on it so I added my own. My bill dropped almost in half and I got away from Comcast's metered, expensive, less reliable crap. I am in Atlanta so the 'threat' of Google Fiber may explain the great deal I got. Not affiliated with AT&T at all and am honestly surprised at how good the service has been. YMMV
- gh02t 9y ago
  Funny, AT&T is more expensive than Spectrum where I am for even worse (if that's possible... Spectrum is pretty bad) service. We're also a Google Fiber location (albeit one of the ones that is currently frozen) and when it was announced somehow Spectrum magically "discovered" a bunch of extra bandwidth and upgraded their plans from 50/5 to 300/50 for $90/mo. Symmetric gigabit for $70 is so far off for us it might as well be science fiction. And this is Raleigh, a well populated area known for high-tech industry. It's frustrating, and there are many places that are far worse off than us.
- pnutjam 9y ago
  AT&T was offering symmetric 100mb for $40 and gigabit for $80 in my Indianapolis suburb.<br>I understand it still has a cap of 1TB if I'm not mistaken. I guess they waive it if you use Uverse TV or directTV.
  - pasbesoin 9y ago
    Yes, even if the prices aren't extortionary, I worry about the cap. And the usage monitoring/scraping they keep wanting to do, and the upcharge for "opting out" of that. Especially as more and more online resources block access coming from/through commercial VPN's, AWS, and other convenient means of using a VPN as an individual, to bypass such monitoring.
- pasbesoin 9y ago
  Yep, I keep reading about how Google Fiber (or its like) entering an area causes competitors to launch competitive offers -- just in that same area, of course.
Fjolsvith 9y ago
I live in NW Kansas and we have gigabit fiber everywhere in this corner. Ruraltel/Nextech is the company that scored the $300 million grant that was a rider on the Hurricane Katrina bill for the purpose of running fiber throughout northwest Kansas.

eventualhorizon 9y ago

AT&T dropped fiber in my front yard too. I ignored it for a few months because previously they only offered bundles with tv and telephone and crappy speeds to boot. A coworker told me he was getting symmetric gigabit from AT&T for $70/month so I decided to check them out. I switched from Comcast and everything has been awesome except for the supplied wireless router. My iDevices will not work reliably on it so I added my own. My bill dropped almost in half and I got away from Comcast's metered, expensive, less reliable crap. I am in Atlanta so the 'threat' of Google Fiber may explain the great deal I got. Not affiliated with AT&T at all and am honestly surprised at how good the service has been. YMMV

gh02t 9y ago
Funny, AT&T is more expensive than Spectrum where I am for even worse (if that's possible... Spectrum is pretty bad) service. We're also a Google Fiber location (albeit one of the ones that is currently frozen) and when it was announced somehow Spectrum magically "discovered" a bunch of extra bandwidth and upgraded their plans from 50/5 to 300/50 for $90/mo. Symmetric gigabit for $70 is so far off for us it might as well be science fiction. And this is Raleigh, a well populated area known for high-tech industry. It's frustrating, and there are many places that are far worse off than us.
pnutjam 9y ago
AT&T was offering symmetric 100mb for $40 and gigabit for $80 in my Indianapolis suburb.<br>I understand it still has a cap of 1TB if I'm not mistaken. I guess they waive it if you use Uverse TV or directTV.
- pasbesoin 9y ago
  Yes, even if the prices aren't extortionary, I worry about the cap. And the usage monitoring/scraping they keep wanting to do, and the upcharge for "opting out" of that. Especially as more and more online resources block access coming from/through commercial VPN's, AWS, and other convenient means of using a VPN as an individual, to bypass such monitoring.
pasbesoin 9y ago
Yep, I keep reading about how Google Fiber (or its like) entering an area causes competitors to launch competitive offers -- just in that same area, of course.

Fjolsvith 9y ago

I live in NW Kansas and we have gigabit fiber everywhere in this corner. Ruraltel/Nextech is the company that scored the $300 million grant that was a rider on the Hurricane Katrina bill for the purpose of running fiber throughout northwest Kansas.