EPB launches America’s first community-wide 25 gig internet service

Re:EPB launches America’s first community-wide 25 gig intern... by ejb999 on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @05:51PM (#32586254)

its weird, I live in a tiny little town with about 400 households and I now have access to 1G symmetrical fiber for about $80/month - but we (the town) had to pay for the fiber build out with increases taxes and user fees...well worth it in my case. I would have been OK with only Comcast as previously it was just 3Mb Verizon DSL for almost my entire WFH career (20+ years).

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Re:EPB launches America’s first community-wide 25 gig intern... by reillyse on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @06:11PM (#32586474)

A cynical person might say that large telecoms company aren’t interested in monopolizing your market and so you are free. I’m astounded by how bad/expensive my internet is in massive cities that should be easy to connect. I live in an apartment in LA and have very few options. I lived in a loft in downtown before (5 years ago) and the building only allowed DSL. I have a business connection in Portland and pay around 100/month for 15Mb.

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Re:EPB launches America’s first community-wide 25 gig intern... by squeaky-clean on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @06:27PM (#32586628)

I'm in Brooklyn by prospect park and only have 1 ISP choice for my apartment. And it's coax based, so every plan caps at 20Mbs upload. It's that or satellite internet. I miss having fiber.

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