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What is the cost for residential fiber there? In my country (Europe) it is about $9 per month for 1 Gbps, minimum guaranteed speed of 100 Mbps. For working from

What is the cost for residential fiber there? In my country (Europe) it is about $9 per month for 1 Gbps, minimum guaranteed speed of 100 Mbps. For working from home it is way more than enough and much more reliable than "mobile only".

rayiner 7y ago
Verizon charges about $80 for gigabit fiber. But to put that into context, most of the states in Verizon’s footprint, like Maryland, New Jersey, and Virginia, are richer than Switzerland: https://images.app.goo.gl/PeQYfKDsLkHoJ3787 https://images.app.goo.gl/PeQYfKDsLkHoJ3787. It looks like prices for gigabit in Switzerland range from $65-140 USD per month (with the $65 figure being over Zurich’s municipal fiber system.) At least here in Maryland, its not cost that limits the uptake here, it’s usefulness. Cable broadband here is very fast. Comcast charges more for 1000/35 cable than Verizon charges for 1000/1000 fiber, even in neighborhoods that have access to both (which is most of the state outside Baltimore and very rural areas). People just don’t value the extra upload speeds that highly compared to Comcast’s better TV packages.
- apexalpha 7y ago
  This is off-topic but I found that the more you dive into the methods used to compare income on both sides of the Atlantic the weirder it gets. Average tends to be skewed to America's favour because of an extremely rich top 5% or so. Median is closer to each other but also seems to favor the US. But then do you account for the fact that Americans work longer hours? Or not? In my country the average workweek is 29 hours. In the US it's 38 I think. And most Western EU countries are in between these two. And European also have more paid leave on average. And you can also use disposable income, which is what you can actually spend, so seems like a fair comparison. Then the US wins again, but on the other hand Americans also have to use this income for stuff like out of pocket healthcare costs, education costs, emergency-unemployment fund etc, where in Europe these things are mostly covered by taxes. But that means your disposable income is lower. But on the other hand buying stuff is usually more expensive in EU because of the VAT system.

rayiner 7y ago

Verizon charges about $80 for gigabit fiber. But to put that into context, most of the states in Verizon’s footprint, like Maryland, New Jersey, and Virginia, are richer than Switzerland: https://images.app.goo.gl/PeQYfKDsLkHoJ3787 https://images.app.goo.gl/PeQYfKDsLkHoJ3787. It looks like prices for gigabit in Switzerland range from $65-140 USD per month (with the $65 figure being over Zurich’s municipal fiber system.) At least here in Maryland, its not cost that limits the uptake here, it’s usefulness. Cable broadband here is very fast. Comcast charges more for 1000/35 cable than Verizon charges for 1000/1000 fiber, even in neighborhoods that have access to both (which is most of the state outside Baltimore and very rural areas). People just don’t value the extra upload speeds that highly compared to Comcast’s better TV packages.

apexalpha 7y ago
This is off-topic but I found that the more you dive into the methods used to compare income on both sides of the Atlantic the weirder it gets. Average tends to be skewed to America's favour because of an extremely rich top 5% or so. Median is closer to each other but also seems to favor the US. But then do you account for the fact that Americans work longer hours? Or not? In my country the average workweek is 29 hours. In the US it's 38 I think. And most Western EU countries are in between these two. And European also have more paid leave on average. And you can also use disposable income, which is what you can actually spend, so seems like a fair comparison. Then the US wins again, but on the other hand Americans also have to use this income for stuff like out of pocket healthcare costs, education costs, emergency-unemployment fund etc, where in Europe these things are mostly covered by taxes. But that means your disposable income is lower. But on the other hand buying stuff is usually more expensive in EU because of the VAT system.