said by WA_Resident:said by fonzbear2000:WOW! I'm a bit jealous! I still can't complain about my 12/2 connection with a 250GB/month cap which I'll NEVER come close to going over though. That just shows you the greed of the big, giant companies such as Comcast and Verizon who could offer more speed for less, but we'll never see it because companies who offer the same type of internet don't compete with each other so it's almost a monopoly. Hell, the competitor here is Qwest DSL which prevents any other phone company from offering FTTH. Oh well, better than living where there's no internet and having to get satellite with 200MB/month caps(PUKE!).
Well, it's kinda of weird with prices and caps around here because in my county there's 8 ISPs that offer internet through the Public Utility District's fiber network and only 2 of them offer the 100MB connections with no caps, one charges $39.95 while the other one is $35.95. Another ISP also offers 100MB connection with a 25G per month cap for $39.95. The rest of them offer lesser speeds (down to 2mb), some have caps and some don't and they all cost $40 per month with the exeption of one ISP (which is a bit expensive).
The next county over also has a fiber network and none of the ISPs provide anywhere close to 100MBps. IFiber which offers the 114Mbps connections (mentioned in the article) only offers 6mb/768k for $35 and 12MB/768k for $40 in that particular county. Seems like the county PUD is throttling/regulating the speed.
Grant county (mentioned in the article) also has some ISPs with
lower speeds and caps. Out of the bunch there is a couple with no caps and truely high speed.
The ISPs can offer low priced internet because they don't have to maintain any of the fiber network since that is owned and maintained by the Public Utility Disctrict which even takes the fiber
right to the outside of your home.
Telecommunication companies tried to stop the PUDs in WA state from offering fiber optics to residents but they failed. Still, the PUDs can't offer any services (internet, TV, Phone) directly to their customers, this is why they contract out to ISPs.
Can you give direct links to the ISP's and their pricing plans? That almost seems too good to be true.
