Longmont, CO has municipal broadband and it is awesome.
50 USD per month for symmetric 1Gb service. Service uptime has been outstanding... much better than the service my work gets in Boulder, CO (Comcast).
For a Boulder resident I’m lucky actually, I have access to to 100mbit VDSL and Comcast. So at least I have two shitty choices.
It's been 10 years, we've spent $30M, and there's been absolutely zero progress on it.
These no competition here since providers are forced to pay a franchise fee to the local government. With lower population towns, it's just uneconomical for a second provider to come in. Seems like the law is anticompetitive.
Do you mean the other way round? Because this way is fairly unusual.
BTW my BB plus phone is $30 a month in the UK VDSL via local loop unbundling.
If you wanted 30 Gbps for 30 houses, then you'd have to pay triple. For something that you wouldn't even notice because you were probably getting 1 Gbps when you actually needed it.