I'm happy to say we did not use federal or state money to build the fiber or the network in Grant County. There is some of that floating around us though. -----Original Message----- From: Warren Bailey [mailto:wbailey@satelliteintelligencegroup.com] Sent: Sunday, July 14, 2013 12:37 PM To: Constantine A. Murenin; Jeff Kell Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: One of our own in the Guardian. I would imagine this cheap rural fiber showed up after the RUS stimulus? A former employer (GCI, in Anchorage Alaska) received quite a bit of money in the form of a grant/loan for a rural fiber network (I think they may have received the largest of all grants). Would be interesting to know how much of this was as a result of dot gov funding. Sent from my Mobile Device. -------- Original message -------- From: "Constantine A. Murenin" <mureninc@gmail.com> Date: 07/14/2013 10:59 AM (GMT-08:00) To: Jeff Kell <jeff-kell@utc.edu> Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: One of our own in the Guardian. On 14 July 2013 10:11, Jeff Kell <jeff-kell@utc.edu> wrote:
On 7/13/2013 10:15 PM, Jima wrote:
On 2013-07-13 14:44, Bill Woodcock wrote:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/09/xmission-isp-customers-p rivacy-nsa
I can happily state that XMission is my home ISP, with UTOPIA (city-involved fiber optic provider) as the local loop. (Really, who has 100/100 at home?)
A whole lot of folks in Chattanooga... https://epbfi.com/enroll/packages/#/fi-speed-internet-100
100Mb symmetric is $69/mo, 250Mb is $139, 1Gbit is $299
Largely Alcatel/Lucent GPON. Business rates considerably higher :) They are one of our providers and we aren't "metered". I don't know how they're handling domestic rates / quotas.
There are a number of 100/100 under $100/mo providers in the US, but most of them are concentrated in various rural areas. I've tried maintaining an up-to-date list of providers with reasonable offers at http://bmap.su/, but lately haven't had the time to keep on updating it. C.