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In our area we had two choices: Copper cat-3 that was installed in 1971, or coax that was installed in the '80s. The first provider got billions of dollars of

In our area we had two choices: Copper cat-3 that was installed in 1971, or coax that was installed in the '80s. The first provider got billions of dollars of increased tariffs by promising to deliver fiber to the home by the year 2000. They had their chance to demonstrate they were interested in investing in the infrastructure. 3-4 months ago we got our municipal fiber connection, gigabit symmetric, no caps, and it's glorious! We can also get 10-gig, but that's $300/mo and I don't have the internal network to handle it.

legutierr 6y ago
This sounds great. Where are you? It seems like a promising place to open a business.
- linsomniac 6y ago
  Much of the Northern Front Range of Colorado has this sort of setup rolling or rolled out: Longmont, Loveland, Fort Collins. I'm in the latter. I'm one of the earlier deploys, but they plan to have the whole city deployed in the next year-ish. My office is expecting to be built out in around 4 months. Pricing for residential is: $59.95 (landed) for gigabit (symmetric, no caps), or $299.95/mo for 10-gig. This is Internet only, they also have phone and TV. For businesses, the pricing is different: 250M/500M/1G is $99.95/199.95/399.95. Pretty much directly competitive with Comcast Business pricing we've been paying, but with much, much more outbound bandwidth.
- artificialLimbs 6y ago
  Bismarck AR and several surrounding communities have fiber through a Coop. They ran 12 strands to my wall. Plans only show 1Gb on their sales brochure. Maybe they don't have infra for 10G yet... I haven't bothered to ask. https://www.catc.net/services/internet https://www.catc.net/services/internet
aksss 6y ago
This sounds exactly like the residential situation in my city, minus the happy ending.
judge2020 6y ago
It'd be nice if there were a registry of cities/companies with a 2 or 10 gigabit residential fiber offering. Google has 2gbit but (for Atlanta) it's only at specific apartment communities: https://fiber.google.com/2gig/ https://fiber.google.com/2gig/ https://fiber.google.com/cities/atlanta/#:~:text=Find%20a,Fiber%20neighborhood https://fiber.google.com/cities/atlanta/#:~:text=Find%20a,Fi...

legutierr 6y ago

This sounds great. Where are you? It seems like a promising place to open a business.

linsomniac 6y ago
Much of the Northern Front Range of Colorado has this sort of setup rolling or rolled out: Longmont, Loveland, Fort Collins. I'm in the latter. I'm one of the earlier deploys, but they plan to have the whole city deployed in the next year-ish. My office is expecting to be built out in around 4 months. Pricing for residential is: $59.95 (landed) for gigabit (symmetric, no caps), or $299.95/mo for 10-gig. This is Internet only, they also have phone and TV. For businesses, the pricing is different: 250M/500M/1G is $99.95/199.95/399.95. Pretty much directly competitive with Comcast Business pricing we've been paying, but with much, much more outbound bandwidth.
artificialLimbs 6y ago
Bismarck AR and several surrounding communities have fiber through a Coop. They ran 12 strands to my wall. Plans only show 1Gb on their sales brochure. Maybe they don't have infra for 10G yet... I haven't bothered to ask. https://www.catc.net/services/internet https://www.catc.net/services/internet

aksss 6y ago

This sounds exactly like the residential situation in my city, minus the happy ending.

judge2020 6y ago

It'd be nice if there were a registry of cities/companies with a 2 or 10 gigabit residential fiber offering. Google has 2gbit but (for Atlanta) it's only at specific apartment communities: https://fiber.google.com/2gig/ https://fiber.google.com/2gig/ https://fiber.google.com/cities/atlanta/#:~:text=Find%20a,Fiber%20neighborhood https://fiber.google.com/cities/atlanta/#:~:text=Find%20a,Fi...