[LINK] FTTH in a California town: 1GBPS!

[Scott Howard]

On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Jan Whitaker <jwhit at janwhitaker.com> wrote:

>
> http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/02/gigabit-internet-for-80-the-unlikely-success-of-californias-sonicnet/
>
> All for $70. It's so fast, the speed checkers can't measure the
> download speed accurately, videos buffer immediately, and the limiter
> is often the servers.
>

Another article on the same roll-out -
www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20120506/BUSINESS/120509761/1036/business

"So far, about 60 Sebastopol households are online with fiber"

"If those customers switched from copper broadband to fiber — a likely
scenario considering the pricing and benefits — Sonic.net would have
effectively spent $1,500 per customer to offer the fiber service."

At $40/month (or $70/month for the gigabit service) it's hard to see how
the economics of this plays out - especially as that price includes phone
service.

  Scott.