Hope Sonic builds a powerful network.
That works out to a bit over 100mbps commit. A fair enough deal but nothing spectacular. Doing 10gbps ports is a neat marketing trick but I can't think of too many situations where you'd balloon that large and yet still sit within 40TB/mo where a gigabit port would be a serious bottleneck.
Just keep in mind the carriers are using at most 40gbit and 100gibt optical lines and trunking them together. If you wire an entire neighborhood with gigabit last mile, or a DC with 10gig to the node, it all coalesces somewhere at the network access points. For home subscribers, I'd much rather prefer a quality product in the 10s of mbit for the next few years, the only point I was originally trying to make. The argument for laying gigabit last mile has more to do with last mile life cycle IMHO than truly giving customers a full gigabit pipe at the moment.
10gbps makes sense if you also have 1gbps servers in their network.
BTW Sonic.net is $70/m. The article was mistaken.
OVH is expanding into Canada too. Makes me quiet scared. They are like the walmart of the data industry.
Shame free's online.net is not competing outside of France.