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tmc8080
join:2004-04-24
Brooklyn, NY

tmc8080

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transferable?

So, if you sell your home or move from one location to another-- is it transferable.. or do you have to pay the fee all over again (assuming you move within the footprint)? Do the new residents at the old location have to pay the $300 fee all over again?

That makes it $2.50 a month over the 10 years for gigabit. $.83 for 100 megabit and $.42 for 50 megabits. So, not free.. but extremely dirt cheap. In some way you have to know that taxpayers are funding this.. no for profit business would foot the bill for 10 years at ANY speed.

BTW, does any of this overlap with Google Fiber's deployment?
existenz
join:2014-02-12

existenz

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There is no overlap with GFiber. NKC, MO is a small town surrounded by KC, MO and the GFiber deal is with KC, MO and KC, KS and several other burbs. Google wasn't interested in buying NKC's 10 year old muni fiber network.

The NKC network was mostly built with casino money, most of the fiber at neighborhood level is already installed and paid for.

For NKC's network, $300 is an install fee so if like Gfiber's 'free' 5M with $300 install fee, the next resident doesn't have to pay the fee. Not sure yet. Will be interesting to see how they handle apt/condo buildings - Google has agreements for all or none and property owner pays the install fee for all units and residents don't pay anything for 5M but a few bucks telcom taxes.