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Re: One of our own in the Guardian.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Warren Bailey)
Sun Jul 14 15:39:53 2013
From: Warren Bailey <wbailey@satelliteintelligencegroup.com>
To: "Constantine A. Murenin" <mureninc@gmail.com>, Jeff Kell
<jeff-kell@utc.edu>
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 19:37:22 +0000
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Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Reply-To: Warren Bailey <wbailey@satelliteintelligencegroup.com>
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I would imagine this cheap rural fiber showed up after the RUS stimulus? A =
former employer (GCI, in Anchorage Alaska) received quite a bit of money in=
the form of a grant/loan for a rural fiber network (I think they may have =
received the largest of all grants). Would be interesting to know how much =
of this was as a result of dot gov funding.
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-------- Original message --------
From: "Constantine A. Murenin" <mureninc@gmail.com>
Date: 07/14/2013 10:59 AM (GMT-08:00)
To: Jeff Kell <jeff-kell@utc.edu>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: One of our own in the Guardian.
On 14 July 2013 10:11, Jeff Kell <jeff-kell@utc.edu> wrote:
> On 7/13/2013 10:15 PM, Jima wrote:
>> On 2013-07-13 14:44, Bill Woodcock wrote:
>>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/09/xmission-isp-customers-priv=
acy-nsa
>>>
>>
>> I can happily state that XMission is my home ISP, with UTOPIA
>> (city-involved fiber optic provider) as the local loop. (Really, who
>> has 100/100 at home?)
>
> A whole lot of folks in Chattanooga...
> https://epbfi.com/enroll/packages/#/fi-speed-internet-100
>
> 100Mb symmetric is $69/mo, 250Mb is $139, 1Gbit is $299
>
> Largely Alcatel/Lucent GPON. Business rates considerably higher :)
> They are one of our providers and we aren't "metered". I don't know how
> they're handling domestic rates / quotas.
There are a number of 100/100 under $100/mo providers in the US, but
most of them are concentrated in various rural areas.
I've tried maintaining an up-to-date list of providers with reasonable
offers at http://bmap.su/, but lately haven't had the time to keep on
updating it.
C.
