Lafayette Looks to Expand Community Fiber Network Monday Mar 02 2015 07:52 EDT Tipped by StLCardsFan Lafayette Louisiana's LUS Fiber faced very sleazy efforts by Cox and BellSouth years ago when trying to launch; efforts that went so far as the two companies hiring push pollsters to try and tell locals taxpayer money would be used to fund pornography. Some pollsters even tried to tell locals that if they approved the municipal broadband project, the government would restrict their television watching to just a few days a week. Years later and a look at LUS Fiber's new pricing and speed page highlights why Cox and BellSouth (now AT&T) were so nervous. LUS Fiber now says the company is offering symmetrical 1 Gbps service for $70, symmetrical 80 Mbps for $55, symmetrical 20 Mbps for $34, or symmetrical 3 Mbps for $20. According to the Lafayette Advertiser, LUS Fiber may expand to other nearby cities -- if those regions can figure out a way to pay for it: quote: Durel responded Thursday, "If Broussard doesn't want it, it's not that big a deal. We don't need to bring it anywhere. We're doing this in response to what people have asked us for." In his State of the Parish Address Wednesday, Durel announced that Lafayette would make LUS Fiber available to businesses in the other municipalities in Lafayette Parish and possibly outside the parish.
As noted previously, Lafayette may be the next municipality to petition the FCC to intervene and overturn parts of an ISP-written and lobbied-for state law hindering the expansion of such projects. |
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2015-Mar-2 8:20 am
FTTP releasesThe thing i love about reading fttp releases is the akward pricing from each. 70$ for symmetrical 1gbps (thank you googfib), but then only 15$ less for 10x less bandwidth?
Should be 70$ for 1gbps, 30$ for 80mbps, 15$ for 20mbps (not considered broadband), and 8-10$ for 3mbps (no where near broadband). I know they have to make a profit somehow, but at least offer many more bandwidth options evenly up to 1gbps instead of jumping from 80mbps to 1gbps.
Thats how stale the market has been that even the ISPs dont know how to market new speeds.
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