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Colorado Town Offers 1 Gbps for $60 After Years of Battling Comcast

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Post by tylermac1 »

randomcarbloke wrote: post #117
dfsegoat wrote: post #54

Nitpicking title: 'Town' vs. 'City', bugs me as a former CO resident. Ft. Collins is huge (~170k people compared to most CO towns which are 400-10k ppl). The title sort of leads you to believe it was a folksy, rural community effort. In reality Intel, AMD, Broadcom and a major State University are located there and that probably helped the effort substantially. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Collins,_Colorado#Maj…

anything less than 6-7,000 people is a village.

The 8th largest city in my state has a population of 16,000.

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Post by gregsadetsky »

Zenbit_UX wrote: post #102
sbarre wrote: post #9

I pay 75$ CDN for 1Gbps with no cap in Toronto, and I used to think we had it bad in Canada.. "Fighting" with a local cable company (monopoly I assume?) to offer a 1Gpbs service in 2019 is depressing.

$60 CDN/month for 1Gbps symmetric in Montreal, had to fight bell tooth and nail, but very happy with it.

How? Where?? I’d love to get 1gbps and fight bell with you!! :)

Contact info in my profile. Thanks!

Edit — is it TelKel? I see that they offer 60$ 1gbps connections, but they seem to target residential high rises...? I called and although they’re expanding in Montréal, they’re not offering any service anywhere on the Plateau.

Let me know more please if you can! Thank you

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Post by TheGallopedHigh »

whalesalad wrote: post #14
Donald wrote: post #10

As a FoCo resident, Comcast sent me an email saying that they're "upgrading our network" and "increasing your Internet download speed". Not really clear what that means until I see an updated rate sheet. I'm sure this is entirely a coincidence and has nothing to do with the fact that they suddenly have some competition now.

Seems that most cable providers do this when an incumbent moves into town. It’s happened to me in two separate metro areas and just happened to my buddy in Phoenix.

Sorry to nitpick but incumbent should be used the other way round. Namely Comcast is the incumbent (currently “holding office”) and the new town ISP is the new comer

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Post by longcommonname »

polpo wrote: post #124

Longmont, just south of Fort Collins, was the first city in Colorado to build out a municipal ISP, and it’s inspired surrounding cities to do the same. It’s where I live and it was a not-insignificant reason why I chose to move here. So far it has been a resounding success for the city. The buildout completed on time and adoption rates are higher than initially expected (the city planned for 37% but the last number I…

Theres still locations here that can't get fiber. The local hospital is owned by a church and they own apartments adjacent to the hospital. These apartments are surrounded by others that get fiber but the map still shows they aren't planned.

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Post by HeadsUpHigh »

sbarre wrote: post #9

I pay 75$ CDN for 1Gbps with no cap in Toronto, and I used to think we had it bad in Canada.. "Fighting" with a local cable company (monopoly I assume?) to offer a 1Gpbs service in 2019 is depressing.

I'm sorry but how exactly is that bad? I have 6 mbps down 0.5 up and this is the best speed I've ever had. I've never heard of anything going beyond 1gbps in my country. What opitons exist above that for consumer level and why would you want it? Like, what's there to do with more than 1gbps right now?

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Post by mleo »

johnday wrote: post #111
howard941 wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Verizon offloaded their Floriduh operation to Frontier but fortunately the fios is already built and I too see the 100mbs symmetric. Unfortunately like Comcast (spit), Frontier believes in abusing its loyal customers so I'm going to revert to Comcast (spit) and play the bounce between the two every year because $230/mo is way too much to pay for cable & internet & unused landline.

Two hundred and thirty dollars? Per month? Bloody hell. I'm on the highest consumer rate that BT offers and that costs £45/mo.

If you go “off contract” with Frontier it goes up quickly. My bill reverted to $200 / month and I didn’t have premium tv channels and only 1 cablecard and 150Mbps. Made some changes to get to Internet only at 500Mbps for $50/month. That includes the modem I don’t need and can’t not pay for.

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Post by torwayburger »

longcommonname wrote: post #144
polpo wrote: post #124

Longmont, just south of Fort Collins, was the first city in Colorado to build out a municipal ISP, and it’s inspired surrounding cities to do the same. It’s where I live and it was a not-insignificant reason why I chose to move here. So far it has been a resounding success for the city. The buildout completed on time and adoption rates are higher than initially expected (the city planned for 37% but the last number I…

Theres still locations here that can't get fiber. The local hospital is owned by a church and they own apartments adjacent to the hospital. These apartments are surrounded by others that get fiber but the map still shows they aren't planned.

If there is some geographical last mile type issue to bring internet to these buildings that are surrounded by fiber, it could be helpful to pitch the church/hospital with a wireless link from one of the fiber pops. I have brought service to medical and hospital buildings in this way before and it's always worked out well.

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Post by paco3346 »

jrochkind1 wrote: post #138

In Baltimore City, your only choice for broadband is Comcast. They charge $75/month for 25Mbps down. I believe that's about double what they charge for the same speed in places where they have competition.

I sure hope you mean Mbps otherwise I'm moving there!

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Post by smolder »

millisecond wrote: post #123
kls wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So we had this in the Florida Keys with AT&T who is the service provider of our area. I live 2 miles out on a peninsula of an island named Summerland, anyway I bought my house and AT&T assured me that I could get DSL but fiber would not be an option. I knew it was copper all the way to my home so I figured it would be the case. Anyways, I buy said house AT&T comes out and tried to get DSL working, and the lines have…

Without the exclusivity agreement, it sounds like you wouldn’t have been reconnected. A community provider probably wouldn’t allocate 70k in capital to bring 3 (potential) customers online. So you’re benefitting by the subsidy of users in denser areas being forced into exclusivity.

How much of that is also a tax write off for the Telco?
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