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.'"

Gigabit? That's even faster than ...

[damn_registrars]

... the Chattanooga Choo-Choo!

Re:More info

[oldspewey]

Strange - that link makes absolutely no mention of "blazing fast porn downloads." Have they even done their market research?

Re:More info

[jd]

They did, yes. The porn testers have not, ummm, returned yet.

Re:200 times faster?

[CannonballHead]

Get 199 friends

This is slashdot. There goes that idea. ;)

Re:The price is actually pretty nice

[bpsbr_ernie]

The catch... They'll announce a cap of 5 GB of data. Once you hit the cap, there will be a per MB charge. :)

See? I was right all along!

[Anonymous Coward]

This just shows what can happen when private companies are allowed to compete without regulation to provide services much more cheaply and efficiently than the gov... oops, hang on, I'll try again.

...government bureaucracies try to implement services that could be done more cheaply and efficiently than the private secto...wait a second...

...

Shit.

Re:The price is actually pretty nice

[halltk1983]

You save over $30/mo by adding a basic phone.