I would imagine this cheap rural fiber showed up after the RUS stimulus? A former employer (GCI, in Anchorage Alaska) received quite a bit of money in the form of a grant/loan for a rural fiber network (I think they may have received the largest of all grants). Would be interesting to know how much of this was as a result of dot gov funding.
Sent from my Mobile Device. -------- Original message -------- From: "Constantine A. Murenin" <muren...@gmail.com> Date: 07/14/2013 10:59 AM (GMT-08:00) To: Jeff Kell <jeff-k...@utc.edu> Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: One of our own in the Guardian. On 14 July 2013 10:11, Jeff Kell <jeff-k...@utc.edu> wrote: > On 7/13/2013 10:15 PM, Jima wrote: >> On 2013-07-13 14:44, Bill Woodcock wrote: >>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/09/xmission-isp-customers-privacy-nsa >>> >> >> I can happily state that XMission is my home ISP, with UTOPIA >> (city-involved fiber optic provider) as the local loop. (Really, who >> has 100/100 at home?) > > A whole lot of folks in Chattanooga... > https://epbfi.com/enroll/packages/#/fi-speed-internet-100 > > 100Mb symmetric is $69/mo, 250Mb is $139, 1Gbit is $299 > > Largely Alcatel/Lucent GPON. Business rates considerably higher :) > They are one of our providers and we aren't "metered". I don't know how > they're handling domestic rates / quotas. There are a number of 100/100 under $100/mo providers in the US, but most of them are concentrated in various rural areas. I've tried maintaining an up-to-date list of providers with reasonable offers at http://bmap.su/, but lately haven't had the time to keep on updating it. C.
