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

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

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Post by nnq »

DrJaws wrote: post #195
Ididntdothis wrote: post #156

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“And I know my $50/mo rate will never rise.” Let’s hope they tie it to inflation or similar. Otherwise the system will die slowly due to underfunding.

On Spain, I'm paying 25€ for 600/600, unlimited calls, a mobile phone line with 3gb of data and 10 hours of calls. $50 for just 1gbps, seems like they can even make profit from that.

with 3gb of data - maybe I'm a weird consumer, but I don't get it what's with this insanely low data caps... while in France I had a 100gb / month 4G data plan for ~20EUR, and couple times I even exceeded those 100 gb!

how/what are most people using internet for that they tolerate such small caps?!

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

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Post by a_wild_dandan »

gok wrote: post #196

The business plan is interesting: https://www.fcgov.com/broadband/files/broadband-business-pla... Key points: they're expecting this effort cost $130-$150m, not pay for itself until 2033 or so, and only get around 28% market share. If Comcast/CenturyLink drops their prices slightly, uptake might be substantially worse.

Comcast now (surprise, surprise) offers 1Gb lines for $90. I jumped on it. But when the city's fiber rolls out to my location, I'm sprinting toward Connexion. Cancellation fees be damned.

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Post by knd775 »

orblivion wrote: post #207
Strom wrote: post #80

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Faster speeds help with downloads. Yeah you won't notice the difference when downloading a selfie, but when you buy Gears 5 on Steam and want to start playing, you will notice the difference between waiting ~1h45m @ 100Mbps / ~11m @ 1Gbps to get that 80GB game.

Okay, so that means certain services out there actually do let you download that fast. I guess that's different from loading assets on a website?

Most services like steam use high throughput CDNs. I can sometimes saturate my 1gbit connection while downloading games from steam or microsoft

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Post by sebringj »

wow, i hope this creates a movement to buck the trend of telecoms as they were only there to keep the status quo so they didn't have to keep costs low and profits high for themselves without care of how it affected progress at such a fundamental level of internet bandwidth and the innovation that can come out of having incredible speeds. F* the telecoms and F* comcast.

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Post by mroche »

technothrasher wrote: post #213
smt88 wrote: post #74

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I looked into this, and Ft. Collins is a "Home Rule Municipality" under state law, meaning it can name itself either a town or city. It seems to have chosen to be a city, so you're right. Around the world, it seems that there's one consistent criterion for something being a city: it must have self-rule and a certain amount of government structure. Some places (notably not the US) have population requirements, but tho…

Here in New England, the distinction between a city and a town is whether it is governed by a town meeting style government with selectmen, or by a city council style government with or without a mayor. In MA at least, you cannot choose to be a city unless you have at least 12K in population.

The board of selectmen were always interesting in my town (at least to me, I didn’t really understand it as a child). Not sure if we are over the 12K minimum, but I doubt anyone would call us a city even if we were.

Municipal ISP would have been cool, but I think power would be a better option first. A neighboring town (either Mansfield or Medfield) as municipal power and compares to us during storms they do great (as in fast response times and efforts to not lose power).

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Post by pulse7 »

godelmachine wrote: post #30

I remember watching in Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj how greedy monopolistic ISP corporations like Comcast are trying hard to outlaw town based internet offerings. Must watch - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xw87-zP2VNA

Such business attempts should be punished by the law!

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Post by konstmonst »

jeremyjh wrote: post #208
DrJaws wrote: post #195

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On Spain, I'm paying 25€ for 600/600, unlimited calls, a mobile phone line with 3gb of data and 10 hours of calls. $50 for just 1gbps, seems like they can even make profit from that.

How much of your taxes is being used to subsidize that rate?

None. Those are private companies that do this. It's the same in Germany. I have a 7 euros/month unlimited calls cell plan but only 500 mb data, which is enough for me. I pay around 25 Euros month for Internet at home. It's fast enough for Steam/Streaming, I don't even know the speed because I stopped caring a while ago.

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Post by rockinghigh »

moreorless wrote: post #217
brennanpeterson wrote: post #197

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I grew up there, and just moved back. Is much nicer than 30 years ago, and legitimately nicer than boulder. Fiber is great, and people forget how much of US infrastructure was communal in early electric buildouts as well. Some of the objections seems to be reflexive anti-government sentiment. I haven't seen corporate services do well enough to convince me of the realistic improvements. And with most services negotiat…

How is the diversity there? Will a Chinese American family feel welcomed there? Asking for a friend. :)

There is almost no diversity in Colorado when compared with the large coastal cities. You may still be welcomed but don’t expect to see many Asians or Asian restaurants and stores.
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