<story><title>Colorado Town Offers 1 Gbps for $60 After Years of Battling Comcast</title><url>https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190904/08392642916/colorado-town-offers-1-gbps-60-after-years-battling-comcast.shtml</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Ididntdothis</author><text>“And I know my $50&amp;#x2F;mo rate will never rise.”&lt;p&gt;Let’s hope they tie it to inflation or similar. Otherwise the system will die slowly due to underfunding.</text></item><item><author>polpo</author><text>Longmont, just south of Fort Collins, was the first city in Colorado to build out a municipal ISP, and it’s inspired surrounding cities to do the same. It’s where I live and it was a not-insignificant reason why I chose to move here. So far it has been a resounding success for the city. The buildout completed on time and adoption rates are higher than initially expected (the city planned for 37% but the last number I saw was around 54%). In my experience, the service has been so good as to be totally invisible. And I know my $50&amp;#x2F;mo rate will never rise. I wish Fort Collins the same experience. The fact that they both cities have municipal electric service will help this significantly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gamegoblin</author><text>In general I agree, but in practice certain nominal prices can be monotonically decreasing due to improved technology lowering prices faster than inflation raises them.&lt;p&gt;For instance, in terms of $&amp;#x2F;GB, data storage costs have been strictly decreasing in nominal terms even with the existence of inflation.&lt;p&gt;That said, I am not sure how much innovation is going into the costs of maintaining a fiber network, so it’s possible that it won’t decrease as fast as 2-3% a year on average. I would be really interested if someone had those numbers!</text></comment>
<story><title>Colorado Town Offers 1 Gbps for $60 After Years of Battling Comcast</title><url>https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190904/08392642916/colorado-town-offers-1-gbps-60-after-years-battling-comcast.shtml</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Ididntdothis</author><text>“And I know my $50&amp;#x2F;mo rate will never rise.”&lt;p&gt;Let’s hope they tie it to inflation or similar. Otherwise the system will die slowly due to underfunding.</text></item><item><author>polpo</author><text>Longmont, just south of Fort Collins, was the first city in Colorado to build out a municipal ISP, and it’s inspired surrounding cities to do the same. It’s where I live and it was a not-insignificant reason why I chose to move here. So far it has been a resounding success for the city. The buildout completed on time and adoption rates are higher than initially expected (the city planned for 37% but the last number I saw was around 54%). In my experience, the service has been so good as to be totally invisible. And I know my $50&amp;#x2F;mo rate will never rise. I wish Fort Collins the same experience. The fact that they both cities have municipal electric service will help this significantly.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>beatgammit</author><text>It could just be locked in for existing customers, but rise for new customers. Over time, people move or die, so it shouldn&amp;#x27;t be much of an issue.</text></comment>