Somewhere in Silicon Valley is a man "standing up to internet giants Comcast and AT&T," reports the Mercury News. (Alternate URL here.)
"Comcast told him it would cost $17,000 to speed up his internet. He rallied 41 South Bay neighbors to build their own lightning-fast fiber-optic network inst.
Home by home, Hills fiber internet corporation continues expansion
Courtesy of Scott Vanderlip
Members of Los Altos Hills Community Fiber’s board and subscribers gather Feb. 16 to mark a milestone: secured funding for the mutual benefit corporation’s next fiber internet build.
With funding secured, Los Altos Hills Community Fiber is set to embark on its most ambitious high-speed broadband internet install yet, the mutual benefit corporation board’s president told the Town Crier last week.
The Burke Road extension could eventually connect as many as 300 homes and provide upload and download speeds of up to 10 gigabits per second, Scott Vanderlip said.