Seems like a race to the bottom on pricing. I'm sure spammers and DCMA violators will love it!
On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 12:05 PM, Chuck McCown <[email protected]> wrote: > Utopia tried that method in Brigham City and it didn't work so well (for a > variety of reasons). > > -----Original Message----- From: Travis Johnson > Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2016 8:35 AM > > To: [email protected] > Subject: [AFMUG] Ammon City fiber > > Hi, > > This is a small "town" that is directly connected to my hometown of > Idaho Falls. The road I drive to work on, the west side of that street > is Idaho Falls, the east side is Ammon. We had a lot of wireless > customers in the Ammon area when I was a WISP. They have been working on > this fiber project for almost 10 years. > > It's a very interesting way to do it. They have bundled the $3,000 > installation into a low interest "bond" kind of thing that is attached > to the property... so that's about $15/month for 20 years. Then they > have a small transport/utility fee for the fiber itself of $16.50/month. > > The most amazing part is the user can switch between providers from a > website, picking the speed and service that they want, and it changes > their service immediately. It will be interesting to see how this goes. > They are supposed to have their first residential customer live by the > end of this year. > > They are saying 100Mbps x 100Mbps service would be about $60-$70 per > month total (with $0 installation cost). > > http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/06/what- > if-switching-fiber-isps-was-as-easy-as-clicking-a-mouse/ > > Travis > >
