The Race to Gigabit Internet Taking Off

Terry Olaes

Terry Olaes

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If you're waiting for Gb Internet speeds, your wait may be over soon. A consortium of research universities found that gigabit Internet service offerings is starting to take off. I see my city on the chart. Is yours?

Progress on deploying 1Gbps broadband service has proceeded with impressive results since 2010, when the Federal Communications Commission's visionary National Broadband Plan called for gigabit test bed communities offering ultra high-speed Internet connections, at least for anchor institutions including "schools, hospitals and government buildings."
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1TB cap on AT&T gigapower. It sounds like a lot, but if the claimed purpose for the rollout of 1Gb fiber is to support 4K streams, Netflix will gobble that up in a couple of days of vegging.
 
not likely here
no dsl or cable
while cspire boasts about 4g, the tower near me is cdma 1x
 
Yeah, that list is made up BS. Even if it's intended to be completed, no way will they push it forward with some many city governments and various fees in the way.

Sad as it is to say. I'm happy with Charter and am one of the few fortunate to have 100m/5m for under 50 a month and have had 2 outages in 2 years.
 
I can see the commercial now...Gigabit internet with 250gb for you and your family to share each month...here's your ZR-1 with a 1 gallon gas tank.
 
1Gb internet is great. 1Gb internet for $300 is not. 1Gb internet ten years later is not.

Most will get 1Gb ten years later for maybe $300. By then we'll be complaining about 1Tb internet for $30 elsewhere lol.
 
CenturyLink 1gb in Minneapolis is only for businesses, so it probably costs about $5000/mo or something stupid. Plus CenturyLink is utter garbage in the area anyway.
 
Heh, San Diego is on the list. Good luck with that.

Back in Lexington, KY where I used to live we had an independent called Insight. When we left, they had rolled out 30MBit, which including cable TV (HD, DVR, Modem, etc.) we were only paying $75/mo for everything. Out here, TWC was charging $60+ for 10Mbit. It was several years before they rolled out the higher speeds. Pathetic.
 
I have crap CenturyLink and their office is about 2 miles away from where I live. I'm glad to see the cable companies are on board and Comcast looks to be leading the pack (being sarcastic). In all serious, the teleco companies need to push fiber now. If they did, they could slaughter the cable companies considering their TV subscriber losses.
 
I might see it but who cares , it'll cost like $300 a month. Unless its Google Fiber that 1Gbps monthly cost will be astoundingly large.

How about 500/500 at least for $70 a month? I'd be willing to accept that at least.
 
FIOS has 500/500 available where I live..I'm sure they could do 1Gb if they wanted to......but at what price?

I downgraded from 150/150 to 75/75 last month because quite honestly, I dont need the bandwidth and the cost was getting nuts....if you need it though, its nice to know its available...we have come a long way in the last few years.
 
Crosshairs said:
FIOS has 500/500 available where I live..I'm sure they could do 1Gb if they wanted to......but at what price?

I downgraded from 300/300 to 75/75 last month because quite honestly, I dont need the bandwidth and the cost was getting nuts....if you need it though, its nice to know its available...we have come a long way in the last few years.
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FiOS wants $300 a month for 500/500 , I have access to it as well. $300 a month.. that's insanity. They don't want you to use 500/500 , if all their consumers had the ability to get 500/500 for $70 a month Verizon would be in deep shit because they are not provisioned for that. Its going to take years of upgrading the network and trickle down speed rate increases before that's a reality.
 
Maybe the US government can pay for these upgrades while the ISP's pocket the cash.

I'm sure that has never happened before.
 
They just spent a month or so this summer digging trenches and laying fiber. Connection is supposed to be live September/November. TV service coming in the next year or so. My parents are excited since they have been on DSl since it was becoming popular. Long time coming considering they got the grant money years ago for this build out.
 
Oh god I can't wait for the "BUT I'M NOT SPEEDTESTING 1GB ON WIFI" trouble calls from customers.
 
timta2 said:
You are better off without it. Some close family members of mine had U-Verse TV and Internet, what an expensive joke. :mad:
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Uverse internet is great here. TWO years and not a single time have I needed tech support to come fix something other than the neighbor cutting our line on accident. Charter on the other hand was pure shit at my previous address.
 
They'll roll it out to trojan horse a price increase. Most customers will fall for it.
 
I share the same attitude as most posters. Pessimism.

Centurylink cannot be trusted at all. "Up to" always means less speed/more latency for more money with them. Comcast is much better, but slightly more expensive.
 
Just give me line speed. Smoke em if you got em. Throttle em if you need em.

Know what I'm sayin ? 😉
 
dr.kevin said:
1 TB cap is enough for me. Faster porn and I still won't hit that cap
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Yeah and that's assuming they even meter accurately. My Cox line has a 400Gb cap, but according to their meter I've only used 4Gb this month. I've used that in 1 hour.. I'm assuming they aren't metering the encrypted traffic.
 
Poseur said:
I share the same attitude as most posters. Pessimism.

Centurylink cannot be trusted at all. "Up to" always means less speed/more latency for more money with them. Comcast is much better, but slightly more expensive.
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Yeah, and trying to cancel with them is a headache. I did a trial with them. They said I'd probably get 30Mbps, but that was just the door-to-door sales tactic and I was only getting 12Mbps. Canceling took 4months. Yes, 4 months. I kept receiving ever increasing bills, it was absurd. Horribly run company.
 
Prices should hopefully drop after the infrastructure is setup. The government in Singapore contracted some company to install fiber to nearly every building in Singapore a few years ago(which isn't that many to be honest). I've been here a few years, paying about $38 USD a month for 150/75, but the same company is now offering 1000/500 for $40 USD. Takes a few months to get installed, so I cancelled my upgrade (not going to be here long enough). It's a promotional price so it'll probably jump up to 65-70 USD in a couple years but still less than what I was paying with Comcast.

http://myrepublic.com.sg/pricing

Going to try to jump on one of these offerings in the Seattle area once I move back...

http://condointernet.com/

So it's possible to get gigabit, just depends on where you live and what provider.
 
HA! AT&T is going to hook up San Francisco, alright I'm holding my breath over that one... as to the "independent projects" yeah still not holding my breath over that. That said, I do work at a college, I wouldn't mind spending some more time there if I had gigabit... nah, still would rather be home in comfort and slower speeds.
 
I live in Chattanooga, TN. Home of EPB Fiber Optics (Formerly the Electric Power Board). I am a very happy subscriber to their 1gbps FTTH network. I'm a huge fan of EPB, so I'll openly admit I'm biased.

I pay $69.99/month for 1gbps fiber. Every September 17th, EPB does something huge for their anniversary. Last year, it was to drop the price of 1gbps to $69.99 from $300.00, and upgrade everyone running at less than 100mbps to 100mbps. Everyone running above 100mbps, but less than 1gbps, was upgraded to 1gbps.

Needless to say, I'm hoping that EPB does something equally awesome for their impending anniversary. :)
 
Godmachine said:
FiOS wants $300 a month for 500/500 , I have access to it as well. $300 a month.. that's insanity. They don't want you to use 500/500 , if all their consumers had the ability to get 500/500 for $70 a month Verizon would be in deep shit because they are not provisioned for that. Its going to take years of upgrading the network and trickle down speed rate increases before that's a reality.
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Yah, they are nuts with the prices...they sure dont try and compete on price around me
 
Great. I see I need to move 1 freaking block over into TWC territory! Thanks Cox! I'm in Cox Los Angeles territory, which happens to include some very affluent cities too. Shame.
 
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