Ting/Tucows to Expand Gigabit Fiber to 'Five or Six' New Markets Last December MNVO Ting made a surprise announcement that it too would be jumping into the gigabit broadband game, buying a small Charlottesville, Virginia ISP called Blue Ridge InternetWorks (BRI). The goal, Ting proclaimed at the time, was to bring "shockingly human experience and fair, honest pricing" to the fixed-line residential broadband market.

Ting says they're offering locals two pricing options: symmetrical gigabit service for $90 a month, or symmetrical 5 Mbps service for $20 a month. Business-class service will be $139 a month. In addition to the company's Chartlottesville operations, Ting also recently lit up gigabit service as part of a public/private partnership with Westminster, Maryland. A Ting announcement (pdf) states they'll be offering gigabit service (with no caps) over the city-owned infrastructure, with plans to offer service to every home within city limits. Now Ting parent company (Tucows) CEO Elliot Noss states the company is looking at five or six additional markets, some of which may be in North Carolina. "We are probably looking at going forward with five or six markets, and North Carolina is one of the leaders in the country in fiber to the home," syas Noss. "I think that’s been true since Wilson in the early days, and now Google coming to a couple of markets and AT&T is responding, so there’s certainly a lot happening." Noss says Ting is only working with cities that are already sure they want fiber installed locally, and not municipalities that "want to hear about why they should have fiber or gigabit connectivity." The CEO says the company should be deciding which cities to upgrade to gigabit fiber in the next few months. Noss says Ting is only working with cities that are already sure they want fiber installed locally, and not municipalities that "want to hear about why they should have fiber or gigabit connectivity." The CEO says the company should be deciding which cities to upgrade to gigabit fiber in the next few months.







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angstrom60

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Charlottesville, VA 6 recommendations angstrom60 Member Sigh



It's like having your face pressed up against the candy store window but the door's locked. I'm two miles south of town in Albemarle County.It's like having your face pressed up against the candy store window but the door's locked.

CosmicDebri

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Lake City, FL 3 recommendations CosmicDebri Member Wish I was in their footprint I'd be sooooo happy with the symmetrical 5 at $20/month, and would probably scrape together the $90 for the gig easily enough.