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Come to Romania. We have IPv6, 1Gbps for just ~6 pounds. And as a bonus I got two 3G SIM cards + usb modems with unlimited traffic entirely free.

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O.o I'm in New York City which for America has pretty decent fiber service and 100mbit costs ~61 pounds ($75). Very jealous!

For what it's worth, I'm getting 1,000Mbps with AT&T Fiber for $75 a month. I'm located just an hour northwest of Atlanta, in Rome, Georgia.

Over in Cherokee County, meanwhile, it's $70/mo with Comcast for 75Mbps. I was hopeful for a Google Fiber rollout when they announced it, but no dice.

I'm paying $100/mo for gigabit fiber through Ringgold Telephone Company. I'm in Ringgold, GA (right on the Tennessee border, south of Chattanooga).

I don't think that Google is expanding any further in the atlanta market, but I am in Kennesaw, and have AT&T fiber which is pretty decent.

I'm in Silicon Valley, and outside of SF (where the ISP market isn't a monopoly), a gigabit from Comcast costs ~$300/mo. It still seems absurd to me that I'm 20 minutes from companies like Apple and Google, but getting decent ≥100Mbps Internet is expensive and challenging.

(I pay for "business class" however, so my bill is slightly more expensive per Mbps because of that (the $300/mo above is residential, though). But I get an almost nearly static IPv4 address, and customer support that's only moderately bad, as opposed to the residential level support which beyond bad.)

In Romania we have monopolies in most of the cities, but the ISPs have the same price no matter the location.

The prices only differ in very remote locations, where you have to pay either ~$15 for 50Mb/s or ~$25 for 2Mb/s, depending on how remote it is.

How do you have it so fast and so cheap? This is far better than what most of us have in the US by the way.

Romania (and if my memory serves me right, a lot of eastern european countries) have heavily invested into their internet infrastructure. Huge costs for their government, but it is paying off. As a result, almost the entire country has high speed links for dirt cheap.

It's somewhat similar throughout Europe too. Speeds may vary. Prices are relatively low. Paying 29€/month for whatever your line is able to supply is common in France. Regrettably, due to our choice of investing into copper lines heavily, our infrastructure is starting to get old. For example, I am getting 8Mbps/1Mbps and it's not likely to change soon.

The government didn't get involved at all in the infrastructure here. There were thousands of small ISPs about 10-15 years ago that got bought by the two big ones. Then the two big ISPs switched everything to fiber and increased speeds while decreasing prices.

My ISP was so small that it required me to lay my own cables and get a router.

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