Gigabit Speeds At Home In the US

An anonymous reader writes "The Electric Power Board of Chattanooga is preparing to offer 1 Gigabit speeds at home by the end of the year. 'The city-owned utility announced today it will boost its broadband service to 1 Gigabit throughout its service territory by the end of 2010. Such a connection will be 200 times faster than the average broadband speed in America and the fastest of any US city.' The NY Times reports that the service will cost $350 per month. 'Mr. DePriest of EPB does not expect brisk demand for the one-gigabit service anytime soon. So why offer it? "The simple answer is because we can," he said.'"

Comments

Re:Awesome..

[Doc Ruby]

Japan "loves technology"? That's a circular argument.

The top EU states - France:18Mbps; NL:9Mbps; Portugal:8Mbps; Poland: 7.5Mbps - are faster than the fastest US states. To say nothing of Finland:22Mbps; Sweden:18Mbps; Norway:7Mbps, or Canada:7.6Mbps.

But you're the kind of person linking to Teabagger lies like "Clinton caused the housing collapse" in your .sig. Even though the Clinton administration was right to force banks to loan to people who couldn't get loans before, since those people defaulted on their loans at a vastly lower rate than the rich White people who actually caused the housing collapse. Rich White people who voted for the Republicans who deregulated banks starting during the Clinton administration.

You Republicans collapsed the economy, and you Republicans halted the Internet boom that we invented (and Democrats encouraged while Republicans did nothing). You Republicans are the problem, no matter what your bad logic and spoonfed propaganda tells you.

Re:The price is actually pretty nice

[oldhack]

The fools will learn what it feels to have their ass rammed with a GB pipe.

Re:The price is actually pretty nice

[bpsbr_ernie]

I'm guessing, there may be some, that don't mind. *smirk*