Grande Communications, a Texas communications company that bills itself as the first broadband company in the region to build a fiber network from the ground up, is looking into options for being bought out by another company. The decision was made in part after a similar purchase last year in which Everest Broadband was acquired by SureWest. The $173 million sale translated into the unusually high price of $4600 per subscriber for Everest. Based on that estimate, Grande could hope to be sold for up to $600 million although they’re currently hoping for a half billion dollar price tag.