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[Laertes]

A few hours from where I live, Google has been rattling the cages of internet providers.  Check out these plans for Kansas City:

1,000 Mbps up and down with TV & other crap = $120(USD)/Mo
1,000 Mbps up and down (data only) = $70(USD)/Mo
5 Mbps down, 1Mbps up = FREE/Mo
 
Link here: https://fiber.google.com/cities/kansascity/plans/

Holy crap, most people don't even have gigabit local networks in their home setup and you can get gigabit internet for 70$/mo? Not bad. 

Here in Munich, Germany, I'm getting 40M/3M speed over Coax Cable for 35€/mo, altough that's an old contract and apparently, prices have dropped to 30€/mo for 120M/6M connection. Gotta call the cable company!

Link to the prices: http://www.cablesurf.de/tarife.php?id=11

An offering from a slightly different company for 100M/12M small business network for 45€/mo
http://www.kabeldeutschland.de/internet-telefon/internetanschluss-business-100.html

Why is the internet so horribly expensive in australia? Is it just bad politics or is there a specific reason? I mean, in the more rural areas infrastructure costs are probably way higher, but not in the big cities, right?

[SeanB]

Single monopolistic supplier. Australia Telstra, here in South Africa Telkom.

[toushirou1989]

And for those with higher bandwidth, commercial vs residential doesn't compare. Providers will cap you if you are running a server at home, but they won't cap commercial connections. So his price is really good for a commercial connection!

Edit: BTW Dave, what is the maximum upload usage per month before overages with your new provider.

i just check the website that is in the youtubvideo and for the 8m/8m its around 500gb with a $1 per gb over fee.

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