{"id":660571,"date":"2013-05-28T15:34:15","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T19:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=232663"},"modified":"2013-05-28T15:34:15","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T19:34:15","slug":"another-rural-isp-offers-gigabit-internet-to-consumers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/660571","title":{"rendered":"Another Rural ISP Offers Gigabit Internet To Consumers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/vermont-isp-offers-gigabit-internet-for-35-a-month-2013-04\">Vermont Telecom<\/a> made headlines in late April when it announced it would bring Google Fiber-like Internet speeds to its customers for only $35 a month. Now another rural ISP has started to offer gigabit Internet, but at a more expensive cost. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cfu.net\/\">Cedar Falls Utilities<\/a>, a small city-owned company out of Cedar Falls, Iowa, announced this week that it is the first community in Iowa to offer gigabit Internet service to its customers. It even put together a low-budget video announcing the new Internet option: <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"616\" height=\"347\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Dlr92neEggM?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>CFU&#8217;s gigabit offerings is more in line with what we&#8217;re seeing in towns like Chattanooga. The city offers gigabit Internet service to residential customers, but the prices ensure that only the well-to-do can afford it. In this case, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cfu.net\/cybernet\/residential-service.aspx\">gigabit Internet with CFU<\/a> costs $267.50 a month, or $272.50 a month if you live outside of city limits. <\/p>\n<p>Residential customers are getting a steal, however, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cfu.net\/cybernet\/business-service.aspx\">gigabit Internet for businesses<\/a> costs $950 a month. For both residential and business customers, the speed is set at one gigabit down and 500 megabits up. In comparison, Google Fiber offers one gigabit down and up. <\/p>\n<p>Even if the price is ridiculously high, it&#8217;s still a good sign to see more local ISPs offering gigabit Internet. The trend may soon force the hands of the major ISPs to start offering faster Internet services. Let&#8217;s just hope they don&#8217;t exploit their customers by charging ridiculous prices. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/this-is-the-most-honest-cable-ad-that-youll-never-see-video-2013-03\">Knowing ISPs<\/a>, that&#8217;s probably not going to happen though. <\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=F6q8iJHfUN4:zFolDPugQgc:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=F6q8iJHfUN4:zFolDPugQgc:wF9xT3WuBAs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=F6q8iJHfUN4:zFolDPugQgc:wF9xT3WuBAs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=F6q8iJHfUN4:zFolDPugQgc:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=F6q8iJHfUN4:zFolDPugQgc:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=F6q8iJHfUN4:zFolDPugQgc:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=F6q8iJHfUN4:zFolDPugQgc:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=F6q8iJHfUN4:zFolDPugQgc:mfZ73u_VV2s\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=F6q8iJHfUN4:zFolDPugQgc:mfZ73u_VV2s\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/webpronews\/all\/~4\/F6q8iJHfUN4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vermont Telecom made headlines in late April when it announced it would bring Google Fiber-like Internet speeds to its customers for only $35 a month. Now another rural ISP has started to offer gigabit Internet, but at a more expensive cost. Cedar Falls Utilities, a small city-owned company out of Cedar Falls, Iowa, announced this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7358,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7358"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}