The Switch- They may not realize it, but starting today, some high-end Internet subscribers in Chattanooga, Tenn., will turn on their computers and start browsing the Web at a gigabit per second — 10 times the speeds they're used to. By month's end, some 39,000 area residents will see their mid-tier connections become twice as fast — from a current 50 megabits per second to 100. Better yet, the majority of these customers won't pay a penny for the upgrade.
$55 gigabit available in San Antonio while people in other cities pay $70.
Google Fiber filing permit to begin construction in Louisville.
As Google Fiber is sorting out its next moves, ground zero in the gigabit wars has emerged in Louisville, Kentucky, where AT&T Fiber has talked big but signed up very few gigabit customers.
In other news: "half a decade" sounds way longer than a piddly 5 years.