Hi,
This is a small "town" that is directly connected to my hometown of
Idaho Falls. The road I drive to work on, the west side of that street
is Idaho Falls, the east side is Ammon. We had a lot of wireless
customers in the Ammon area when I was a WISP. They have been working on
this fiber project for almost 10 years.
It's a very interesting way to do it. They have bundled the $3,000
installation into a low interest "bond" kind of thing that is attached
to the property... so that's about $15/month for 20 years. Then they
have a small transport/utility fee for the fiber itself of $16.50/month.
The most amazing part is the user can switch between providers from a
website, picking the speed and service that they want, and it changes
their service immediately. It will be interesting to see how this goes.
They are supposed to have their first residential customer live by the
end of this year.
They are saying 100Mbps x 100Mbps service would be about $60-$70 per
month total (with $0 installation cost).
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/06/what-if-switching-fiber-isps-was-as-easy-as-clicking-a-mouse/
Travis
