Another business owner in Dayton wanting to bring fiber to the home in the neighborhood of South Park, David Estrati, sent me an article announcing that Google Fiber is hitting some permit delays in Austin, Texas.
The article closes:
Other ISPs operating in Austin have been racing to be more competitive. Of these, only Grande Communications is actually offering a 1Gbps tier on par with Google. AT&T is currently offering speeds up to 300Mbps, but plans to upgrade to 1Gbps by the end of the year. Time Warner has promised to upgrade to 300Mbps by this summer, and will also be offering lower tiers more modest speed boosts, for instance bumping 15Mbps users up to 50Mbps. Only Austin residents will see the speed improvements in the foreseeable future.
This confirms what Dean Goodman, a colleague from Austin, told me in late March of this year. It is good for Austin to have the existing major ISPs bump up their broadband speeds. I am surprised that AT&T plans to offer gigabit speeds in Austin. What is keeping them from bringing those speeds to Dayton?
Leigh Sandy is the founder of Extra Mile Fiber and has been building and operating networks connected to the Internet since 1995.