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Competition in gigabit internet market can significantly reduce prices

Competition in gigabit internet market can significantly reduce prices

October 21, 2016

Via: CIO
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Americans have long put up with expensive broadband service that’s slower and more expensive than what is enjoyed in much of Europe and parts of Asia. Even when big ISPs announce that they deployed gigabit broadband in a new market, all too often the claims are exaggerated or restricted to just a few neighborhoods.

In the last few years, however, a number of ISPs, Google, and a few U.S. cities made ultra-fast connections available via a technology called “Fiber to the Home” (FTTH). When there’s only one ISP in a city or town that offers gigabit broadband, it tends to be very expensive.

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