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  • I know it will be years before anyone actually builds out something like this here but it’s at least nice to finally see Houston on a list like this.

  • I’m paying $65/month for 25mbps from Comcash, can’t imagine what the price would be for this speed. Something akin to a mortgage payment….

  • Yep, and they’ll still continue to ignore rural America. Out here at our place in Redwood Valley, AT&T just started offering DSL last summer, and the only tier available is 768 Kbps, yep, 768, not even worth the 20 bucks a month they want for it. Thankfully, Comcast does have HSI at our place, we have the Blast Tier (50/10) and get 57/11 Mbps 24×7, with every low latency, and we could get the 105/10 Mbps tier if we wanted to. We’re lucky at my place though, we’re right next to US 101 and the NWP RR, many other places in this area don’t have broadband.

    We recently tried to get a area wide Fiber Network, it would have served the rural counties of Mendocino and Sonoma with a redundant, fast fiber link, the incumbents helped kill it though, they won’t serve us with fiber, but they will sure as heck make sure nobody else does either-

    “The project would have included a stretch of Highway 1 corridor along the North Coast that offered hope to isolated, coastal communities from Bodega Bay to Sea Ranch, and north to Westport in Mendocino County. It also would have included mountainous areas like Cazadero and Occidental, where folks have been scraping together slow, high-cost, spotty Internet access through any means necessary.Rings of fiber optic line looped between the coast and a north-south route along Highway 101 through Petaluma on the south end, Laytonville on the north and Ukiah and Boonville in between, would have ensured connectivity had any portion failed temporarily………..“I call this the great stalemate,” said Drake. “There’s a huge need in Northern California, and we’ve got a program that was designed to take care of the need, and we’ve got incumbent carriers who made this financial decision, for one reason or another, not to serve these rural communities. But at the same time they are the biggest opponents, preventing anyone from doing anything about it.”

    http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article…cles/140309892

    You can bet though that if you can’t get fast, affordable and unlimited broadband, that you will be able to get their metered, less reliable and much more expensive LTE. An article I read the other day said America has moved from a Democracy to an Oligarchy, where the rich rule, and things like this prove that. We are, sadly, at the mercy of these mega corporations, and the current Congress seems intent to keep it that way. So, this is just more fluff from a mega carrier wanting to look good, the reality is they are in it 100% for themselves, not to make America a better place.

  • I know they are running fiber in Alhambra California. At my work they were taking up most of the parking outside and did some demolition to our work place because we have a manhole for atnt. They showed me the fiber cable’s and how they set up the boxes with the service.

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  • It’s still dry rape if you want internet only. They rip you for a lot of up-front cost despite having contracts and what not.

  • As long as there are caps, speed means nothing.

    Here is your Bugatti Veyron fine Sir! But you may only drive it for for 10 miles a month!

    Which means you get to use your car at it’s top speed for 2m18s! Good luck the rest of the month getting home.

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    • I have ATT now and speaking from experience, they don’t enforce the cap. They just send you a letter letting you know you’ve been naughty. If you consistently are blowing past it (400gb, 500, etc) they’ll threaten to throttle you. I’ve got several IT friends on it including myself and none of us have ever gotten to that point. It’s basically one of those “we reserve the right to” but never actually do it. Comcast has a soft cap as well but since they don’t enforce it either, no one cares.

      • I have Uverse with 12 down and 1 up, suppose to be 32 down, but they include your TV boxes using up part of the speeds, which would be nice if they advertised it like that. Pretty hard to break their ceiling, thought it was 350gb, and that was with my brother and I both downloading vids from the net everyday.

      • Comcast does not have a softcap in Atlanta. They have a Wireless style overage charge over 350.

  • I can tell you that in large areas of Jacksonville AT&T doesn’t even provide UVerse services. Good luck on getting fiber internet services.

  • Looking at cities is one thing, however when many cities have exclusivity and franchised provider agreements I’d think AT&T is effectively locked out. My folks live in a retirement community that Verizon purchased a twenty year exclusivity. Much ado about nothing.

    • If your router supports gigabit Ethernet on the WAN port this shouldn’t be an issue. Your router usually connects to the ONT (optical network terminator) directly in FTTH (fiber-to-the-home) setups. Obviously the rest of your local network (switches, computers, etc) will need to support gigabit Ethernet speeds as well.

  • They have a box in front of my house now my street has more garbage, more human waste and more loiterers hanging around because that box is there. A place to poop and throw garbage and sit on top of. Ugh. Aside from this, AT&T refuses to come clean it even after calling them on it, and their prices sure are high for limited GBs worth of data. They CAN provide unlimited but limit 250GB per account over fiber and cost the same as Comcast who has since gone and removed limits.

  • This is a bit misleading. If you are going to expand to “Houston” I assume you’re including East Houston, Old Houston, etc etc. That’s 1 market, not 10. This is to boost marketing materials – “We’re in 1000 markets!” meh

  • And…nothing near my area,..of course
    “Internet speeds reaching up to 1 Gigabit per second”. Would someone please translate? (<< I know it's a troll)

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  • I would like to point out that Akron is NOT part of Cleveland.. Two separate cities.. Just super close to each other (40 minute drive between each).

    Also, that “List” really doesn’t make sense.. I live in a Eastern ‘Burb of Cleveland and I am a lot closer to the city center than the municipalities listed.. Must be logistics or something.

    • That’s true that its not part of Cleveland, but it is part of the Greater Cleveland area.

    • 1 MB up over hard wire, 3 G speeds are faster than that wirelessly. Pretty sad we live in the most technological advanced country with speeds that rival third world countries, think we are ranked 37 for data speeds in the world.

      • Our biggest problem is that we’re just too physically big. It takes a long time to lay infrastructure here because of our sheer size.

  • I can make news like this as well that has no real impact or chance of getting off:

    I am going to make a list of all cities I am going to give $1,000,000 to each citizen

    1. Chicago
    2. Miami
    3. Cincinnatti
    4. Cleveland
    5. All cities

    *Must be in the age of Star Trek NG
    **Not guaranteeing some or any will get money

    Companies just like to spout off…I will believe these massive fiber networks when I actually see it being built.

      • Perhaps if it is successful, ISPs wont be able to keep out Google and other municipality networks.

        Who am I kidding, it has nothing to do with what is right or fair and with who pays their senator more…

    • Comcast just bumped up their 50Mbps package to 105Mbs, and their 105Mbps package to 150Mbps.

    • It’s going to take petitioning your local government to install the fiber for all homes and business’. Then they should charge telecom’s to use it by discounting their prices 50% for them to use it, would be a great idea.

  • But how much more expensive is it going to be compared to Google Fiber? Thats the question.

    • If its like the current markets where gigafiber exist. Same price. $70 but you have to let them see your data

    • For 100mb, it costs $80 and if you want the actual competing speed 1gbps it will cost nearly $150 BEFORE TV package is forced on you.

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