VTel Offers Gigabit Fiber Service at Half the Price of Google's

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Gabriel Fonseca

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oooh! Comcast and Centurylink shour seriousely reconsider their prices immediately. I though Comcast did us a favor by bumping my connection to 72 megabits but.... Really?! $35 a month for Gigabit service? BRING THIS TO COLORADO PLEASE !!!!!
 

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Some very small areas in the UK get gigabit fiber. There's 100mbps available in my area in a half-mild radius around my house.

Naturally my house (which is a new construction) gets 6mbps max. It's obvious really, I mean who believes new houses need access to modern broadband? And this after waiting TWO MONTHS for an idiot to turn up and flip and switch to activate my service because, naturally, every broadband engineer for thirty miles is booked solid.

tl;dr: if you're on fiber, I hate you slightly.
 

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How is this capitalism working as intended, if capitalism was working as inteneded, we'd all be getting offered VTel's service and price.
 

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Capitalism. Working as intended.

Actually this isn't capitalism. VTel got a government grant, pure capitalism doesn't allow for this. This is a combination of socialism and capitalism. You may want to either check your facts or your definitions before making such a broad statement.
 

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Yeah great news and all but with what footprint? $94 mill wont get you far as far as installations...plus you have to constantly fight-off all the greedy ISP's lawsuits and their lobby that they throw at you to shut you down.
These greedy ISP are so dirty they pass laws in local municipalities (by buying commissioners etc) to make their service "exclusive" and then fine cities/counties if they want to leave the agreement.
 

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There are only about 250,000 households in Vermont. If they are offering access to ALL of them (the number is probably more like half that) then the government is subsidizing this to the tune of $375 per connection.
Yes, I am mostly just pissed because I am jealous that they got it and I didn't...
 

Gabriel Fonseca

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oooh! Comcast and Centurylink shour seriousely reconsider their prices immediately. I though Comcast did us a favor by bumping my connection to 72 megabits but.... Really?! $35 a month for Gigabit service? BRING THIS TO COLORADO PLEASE !!!!!
 

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"which enabled the company to refit its antiquated infrastructure that was originally installed in 1890."

The words 1890, and fiber network should not exist in the same paragraph without a time machine. Perhaps some elaboration is required, like "Antiquated copper line infrastructure"
 

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Getting a giant welfare check from the government isn't "Capitalism". In fact, this could in the long term be detrimental to this company seeing as it got its first taste of government subsidized capital. It may or may not become dependent on this to do well but considering the company isn't in the category of "too big to fail" it may get dumped off and file Chapter 11 within the decade, kind of like Solyndra. Of course Solyndra was totally founded on funny money stimulus and hardly lasted so the effects may not be the same.
 
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