I wish that would happen to me. There’s two big companies that service most of my area, one is cable, the other is DSL. The DSL provider, whenever I’ve checked, only offers 10Mbps download. Big nope from me. Cable has gigabit, but capped at 30mbps upload.

There’s a third regional provider that operates in my area that does fiber exclusively (plus a bunch of resellers and wireless providers). The fiber company doesn’t serve my address. Just me though… Well, my side of the street. If I put in my neighbors address into their service form, it says they’re capable of getting gigabit up and down for a very reasonable price. I put in mine, and “sorry, we don’t serve your address” or whatever. I think that’s because the utility poles are on the other side of the street, and they’re on the poles, but don’t have a permit to cross the street (generally by aerial lines)… Which is what the cable provider did when I finally purchased their service; they ran a line over the road to my house.

Upload is important to me, and 10:1 speeds are fine, but 30:1 or more, no thanks. The plan I went for was 300/30, which is the fastest upload they offer with the slowest download (the 200mbps plan was 20mbps upload or something, and the gigabit was 30mbps upload)… I want fiber.

If that regional fiber company knocked on my door saying that they service my area now, I’d ask where I sign.

And before anyone asks: I contacted them about it and they said something about the permits and blah, and blah. I’ve tried to contact them several times about how I can help get them the permits to operate in my area more broadly (including my address), but they have not responded. I’m happy to petition my town hall or regional governmental office to push things along or even canvassing for signatures on a petition to give them the required permits to serve the area… Even paying for a portion of the permit cost if necessary… Not a word from them.

Feels bad.