I am under the impression you are not familiar with common metro broadband pricing.
Honestly. I have a rather large spreadsheet of major North American fiber / cable / DSL providers, contracts, misc fees, etc. Once you get past the "contract promo" pricing, seeing 10Mbps for $45-55+ a month is far from uncommon - especially for the cable cos, which sucks when you see that 10Mbps stay at 2-4Mbps during peak because of how vastly over provisioned much of those networks are. That said, their 1Gbps pricing (which they want customers on, as gpon ports aren't free in the strategic sense) really stoked a fire under most of the providers asses. On Apr 10, 2016 4:38 PM, "Ken Hohhof" <[email protected]> wrote: > Free was silly. But hiking the minimum tier from $0 to $50 is kind of > extreme. They must have been surprised how many people were OK with a mere > 10 Mbps at America’s favorite price. > > Comcast’s $10 price is more reasonable than either $0 or $50. > > > *From:* Jaime Solorza <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Sunday, April 10, 2016 2:31 PM > *To:* Animal Farm <[email protected]> > *Subject:* [AFMUG] Google Fiber ends free 5Mbps Internet offer in Kansas > City| Ars Technica > > > > http://arstechnica.com/business/2016/04/google-fiber-ends-free-5mbps-internet-offer-in-kansas-city/ >
