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I see the service has launched in Charlottesville. As a Virginia Tech Hokie, it's hard to stomach that the Hoos are getting if first, but in all seriousness, I think this is a great thing.

That being said, there's a lot of information that seems to be missing. I'm not sure how excited to be about this until I see pricing.

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I live in Charlottesville and I, as a student, don't know anyone who is dissatisfied with their ISP. This is mostly a college town, and I think the students are the ones who would benefit most from higher bandwidth. To me, they don't seem dissatisfied enough to switch.

That's intersting. I know in Blacksburg, if this was to come to town, people would switch en masse. Other than internet on campus, the quality is terrible.

I can recall fiber proposals from the late nineties in Blacksburg, back when bev.net was a big thing. The proposals to route fiber around the town died in process; I don't recall why, but it surely involved who would pay for it and who would profit.

Surprisingly, there actually IS fiber in Blacksburg. At one of the co-working spaces downtown, they got gigabit internet two years ago. But sadly it hasn't extended from there and the project itself barely got funded.

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