In late 2014 MNVO Tucows' Ting made a surprise announcement that it too would be jumping into the gigabit broadband game, buying a small Charlottesville, Virginia ISP called Blue Ridge InternetWorks (BRI). The goal, Ting proclaimed at the time, was to bring "shockingly human experience and fair, honest pricing" to the fixed-line residential broadband market. Ting has since announced plans to offer service in several other locations including Westminster, Maryland and Holly Springs, North Carolina.
Now the company says it's planning to launch its ultra-fast service in Centennial, Colorado.
The company tells us Centennial will be the largest city to date that they've wired for service, with roughly 107,000 people as of the 2014 census. The company says it's also the largest core network they've built so far, "making it easy for us to service a lot of addresses quite quickly." Centennial, which the company tells us is a "cool, entrepreneurial town," will see the launch of the gigabit service sometime next year.
“Centennial has been refreshing to work with", said Elliot Noss, CEO of Tucows. "Centennial’s approach to partnering with Ting has been excellent. They have found a great balance between being business-friendly while deeply serving the needs of their citizens. They understand how these need not be in conflict."
In launch markets Ting says they're offering locals two pricing options: symmetrical gigabit service for $89 a month, or 5 Mbps service for $15 a month. Business-class service will be $139 a month.
Users in Centennial can sign up for service
here. As with Google Fiber and other such deployments, Ting is operating under a first come, first served model to determine which areas take deployment priority.