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=11An offering from a slightly different company for 100M/12M small business network for 45€/mo
http://www.kabeldeutschland.de/internet-telefon/internetanschluss-business-100.htmlWhy 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?