By Geeks Are Sexy Blog, December 26, 2014
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Minneapolis is to get what’s being billed as the world’s fastest broadband connection, a whopping 10 gigabits per second.
The service is available to around 30,000 homes and businesses in the city and is provided by US Internet. It already provides a gigabit service but has now flipped the switch to increase that ten-fold.
Although available to consumers, it’s probably mainly going to be taken up by businesses as it costs $399 a month. That’s great value on a per-megabit basis (the existing gigabit service is $65), but only if you plan to use it all.
The service offers the same speeds for uploads and downloads, so it seems the most likely target would be a business that deals with transferring very large files, has a lot of Internet users, or a combination of the two. At the moment only a “couple [of] thousand” people subscribe to the gigabit service, so the new package is likely to be a niche product for now.
