Sonic Launches 1 Gbps Fiber Business Lines for $40 Independent California ISP Sonic.net (see our user reviews) is preparing to offer 1 Gbps business lines (100 Mbps upstream) and a hosted PBX service for $40 per month. According to the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, Sonic is currently burying fiber at a local industrial park in Santa Rosa and along the Highway 101 corridor, and hopes to have the first businesses up and running within two months. Sonic, a rare survivor of the independent ISP wars, started planning for residential fiber back in 2010. The company says they'll ultimately offer residential users access to these fiber runs, but hasn't given a timetable for deployment.
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 | | O_O, Nice, and I'm paying $31 for 2mb/512kbps....... :P | |
|  | | | Re: O_O, This is for business service not for residential. | |
| | | Bengie25
join:2010-04-22
Wisconsin Rapids, WI Reviews:
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| Re: O_O, but.. but.. but... businesses use lots of upload and that somehow magically costs more than download.. how can they be offering this for less?!
I assume the can offer it so cheaply because their residential customer base probably is what sets their 95th percentile of bandwidth, so business bandwidth is free.
Example: Get a bunch of home users streaming Netflix, YouTube, etc and suddenly you have 100gb of peak. During the day, you may only be using around 20gb, so you decide to start selling to businesses and now you're maybe up to 50gb during non-peak hours.
Since your peak is set by home users, transit bandwidth for business users is free. Because of that, you can charge less.
Sonic.Net seems to be nice people. One of their head people said something along the lines of "we have only a handful of people making almost full use of their 1gb link 24/7, but it doesn't really matter, we're just excited to see them making use of it." | |
| | | | | Yes. But I pay only $50 per month, including taxes AND my old AT&T landline for a sustained 20Mbps DSL connection. It's only a matter of time before the service makes it to residential. | |
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| | The Joys of Living in a Rural area. Time Warner or nothing if you don't live right in town. | |
| | | Sonic is the best! Go Sonic.net, Go!
Great news on your fiber expansion and we can't wait till you get up here to the Airport Business Park area. We've been a customer with you since 1999 (started with dial-up & Broadlink wireless back then) and have seen a positive progression of faster, better & lower cost services since then. When we see the construction crews out on Airport Blvd., we will sign-up for fiber! Thank you Dane  | |
| |  warriorsIt's A Great Time Out
join:2001-06-05
San Jose, CA | Re: Sonic is the best! lucky you, doctorlevy. | |
| | | | doctorlevy....We visited the Santa Rosa/Sebastopol/Sonoma area 3 years ago. Beautiful area, great climate, nice wineries, and a great ISP with Sonic.net. What more could you want! | |
| | |  KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little GuyPremium
join:2000-01-17
Tulsa, OK | Re: Sonic is the best! What more could you want!
--- It to be located somewhere else other then California  | |
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 dvd536as Mr. Pink as they comePremium
join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
kudos:4 | * y a w n * yet another provider serving a handful of people.
pfft yawn
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| elray
join:2000-12-16
Santa Monica, CA | Servers Allowed? Caps? Surely Dane will have to announce some form of restriction, lest Houkouonchi and the VZ 45 decide to move to Santa Rosa, along with the DSLR forum power-users. | |
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