Re: att or sonic "residential" fiber service at a "nontraditional" residence.

2020-11-02 Thread Scott McGrath
I’d say ‘it depends’ on the sales organization being willing to sell it. The non-profit also has to realize that they get the same service restoration speeds and customer support that a residential customer gets. On Sun, Nov 1, 2020 at 8:24 PM Mark Seiden wrote: > att 1Gb/sec symmetric fiber

Re: att or sonic "residential" fiber service at a "nontraditional" residence.

2020-11-01 Thread George Herbert
Sonic both has their own FTTH and layers on top of ATT FTTH with Fusion IPBB I think it’s called. I don’t know the resale agreement details in place but it’s openly advertised as such on Sonic’s site. Waiting for the true deal to land in my neighborhood ... -George Sent from my iPhone > O

Re: att or sonic "residential" fiber service at a "nontraditional" residence.

2020-11-01 Thread Matt Corallo
Their site is confusing - they were historically (and still are, in most places) a DSL provider using AT&T for the last hop into the house. Over the past few years they’ve built out their own fiber network which currently has a much smaller footprint. Definitely by far the best residential inter

Re: att or sonic "residential" fiber service at a "nontraditional" residence.

2020-11-01 Thread John Levine
In article <098f44b7-3779-4aad-bfbe-ccaec8c3c...@seiden.com>, Mark Seiden wrote: >> You can cheat, but if you are a nonprofit doesn't that kinda go against >> mission? > >well, depends what you think the mission of an arts organization or a library >is in these troubled times. > >that’s why i

Re: att or sonic "residential" fiber service at a "nontraditional" residence.

2020-11-01 Thread Mark Seiden
> On Nov 1, 2020, at 5:32 PM, Fletcher Kittredge wrote: > > > Sonic builds their own fiber; they are insurgents. This is a good thing and > society would be better off with more competition among infrastructure > providers. It needs to be funded somehow. > > You can cheat, but if you are a

Re: att or sonic "residential" fiber service at a "nontraditional" residence.

2020-11-01 Thread William Herrin
On Sun, Nov 1, 2020 at 5:22 PM Mark Seiden wrote: > if i don’t want an SLA, does anything keep a non-profit organization from > ordering (from att or sonic) residential service at what normally would be > considered a business location? Hi Mark, Generally speaking, the residential and business

Re: att or sonic "residential" fiber service at a "nontraditional" residence.

2020-11-01 Thread Mark Seiden
> On Nov 1, 2020, at 5:32 PM, Fletcher Kittredge wrote: > > > Sonic builds their own fiber; they are insurgents. This is a good thing and > society would be better off with more competition among infrastructure > providers. It needs to be funded somehow. > in san francisco, i know sonic wa

Re: att or sonic "residential" fiber service at a "nontraditional" residence.

2020-11-01 Thread Brandon Martin
On 11/1/20 8:20 PM, Mark Seiden wrote: (would this violate some tariff? could they refuse to install?) AT&T's fiber service is not a tariffed service anywhere that I know of. They absolutely could refuse to install it at what they deem a "business" location and likely would. I know Comcast

att or sonic "residential" fiber service at a "nontraditional" residence.

2020-11-01 Thread Mark Seiden
att 1Gb/sec symmetric fiber is about $70/month. their “business class” service costs >10x that price. if i don’t want an SLA, does anything keep a non-profit organization from ordering (from att or sonic) residential service at what normally would be considered a business location? sonic seems