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I pay around $100 CDN / month for 1Gb/s. It doesn't seem too bad to me.

Sounds exorbitant to me. I pay roughly a tenth of that for access to the city network, at the same speed.

In which city?

Stockholm. Though it is paid as part of my apartment rent, and it is not opt-in but obligatory - ie bought through the house org.

In Ottawa Canada I happen to get Bell Fibe 1.5gbps for $35/month bundled with my rent. It used to be $100 for 1gbps but my building made a deal with Bell which got us great savings and an upgrade.

I really can't complain. Service has been rock solid for the past 5 years with fibe. But I hate the company and the way they run their business. If I had an option for a smaller company with better support for fiber, I would switch right away. But I don't, it's a monopoly.

Two companies I like a lot are Start.ca and Teksavvy, they both resell cable and DSL service and have great support staff. But since they resell, they get shafted by Rogers and Bell on service costs. The regulations are abysmal for competition here.

Will always support Teksavvy (or the like) for this reason

He could be rurally located. Its a similar rate for the same speed out to the farm here, which doesn't seem unreasonable when you consider how expensive it was for the ISP to bring fibre out to the farm.

Really? $10/month for gigabit? Maybe I am a boiled frog.

How about this: I pay $130/month CAD for 10mbps point to point wireless. And only 4km from the city (where there's fiber). There's both cable and fiber 750m from me @ the highway. Nobody will run it to my house.

FWIW I have a natural gas line to the house, and it was put in at the road recently. Why they didn't run fiber at the same time, I don't know. But that's North America for you. The land of mediocre.

Which provider is this? Only gigabit I've seen in Beanfield (which provided excellent symmetric gigabit service to one of my old employers)

Bell Aliant in Halifax offers symmetrical gigabit for $125.

Moving into a building where I'll have Beanfield in about a week. Looking forward to symmetric gigabit for $50/month.

Beanfield is a total joy. You can even email them and a human will respond with an answer.

Enjoy it while you can. I was getting this with Bell while living near downtown Toronto (in a condo). Shortly before I moved last summer Bell started raising rates with the excuse that "they need the money to invest in new infrastructure". Without competition from smaller ISPs expect RoBellUs to squeeze us like oranges until there's no more juice left.

Here in Poland it is 30 CAD.

So basically the same ppp cost than as Canada has 3x the nominal GDP per Capita that Poland has.

it really has nothing to do with pp, in Korea its even cheaper than Poland and its even faster.

I pay €20 for that.

I pay the same, and the service is pretty good.

I pay $110/month Australian for 100 megabit down / 40 megabit up.

Holymoly...that's nearly twice as for 10Gb/s sym in Switzerland.

$25-$30 in Brazil with plenty of options

I'm not satisfied at all, but I pay that (~$25) for 200Gb/s in Brazil.

In India, it is $25.

rogers?

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