Comments on: Followup: West Seattle plan for Gigabit Squared’s mega-fast broadband

By: eyeThink

eyeThink — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:04:02 +0000

If you want cheap internet, and speed is not an issue, there is always dial up! Gotta pay for a land line though.

I don’t watch TV, but I have to pay for cable (don’t even have the boxes to use it) to make my internet ‘cheaper’. Please I need to call up every 6 months and beg for it not to get over 80 bucks.

Well under $100 for something 50 times the speed is a great deal.

By: WSB

WSB — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 04:05:09 +0000

TimH20 – I asked that question during the interview. The GB2 reply was that the existing companies are saddled with old infrastructure that was built for something else and would have to invest a ton more to get up to speed- literally and figuratively. Comcast was built for tv cable, CenturyLink (ex-Qwest) built for phone service. GB2 has the advantage of starting from scratch now.

By: timh2o

timh2o — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 03:56:15 +0000

The whole seems kind of flakey to me. I guess signing up with a non-commitment but interested wouldn’t hurt. I don’t understand why the big boys don’t move with this, Comcast, Qwest etc.

By: Rumbles

Rumbles — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 02:37:20 +0000

I’d love to see Com-worst hit the bricks!

By: Rumbles

Rumbles — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 02:36:49 +0000

I’d love to see Comcast hit the bricks!

By: sam-c

sam-c — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 23:37:49 +0000

no, the first “sign up” link didn’t work originally but it works now, maybe it was updated after the helpful commment from Doug.

By: David P

David P — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 23:34:20 +0000

I’m with Jeff on this. Honestly I would happily pay -more- than $100/mth for 50x the speed.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 23:26:54 +0000

Speak for yourself DBP. I’ll happy pay “well below $100″ for a service that is advertised as being 50 times faster than Comcast, and doesn’t require me to also buy TV service I never use.

By: DBP

DBP — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 23:17:59 +0000

PRICING: “Well below 100 dollars.”

Big Duckin Deal.
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Look, if you can’t beat Comcast significantly on price then don’t even bother. And if you come in higher than Comcast’s price, you’re actually HURTING us, because that will cause Comcast to boost their already obscene rates even higher.
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Internet Providers of Seattle: Hear me!
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What we really need is cheaper, not faster.

By: westseattledood

westseattledood — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 22:35:45 +0000

Both links to the sign up page “work fine” per WSB’s editor. Maybe refresh your browsers? Keep sharing the link…,

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 22:15:56 +0000

I know you said don’t get too hung up on the location. But DOH, it ends one block north of me. I signed up… fingers crossed!

By: Doug (Gigabit Squared)

Doug (Gigabit Squared) — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 18:48:09 +0000

The author has given you the wrong link… easy mistake… go directly to
http://gigabitseattle.com/signup/

By: Mat

Mat — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 18:05:22 +0000

Checking in to say I couldn’t ‘sign up’ either, the page is throwing a 404.

Shame, I’d love to encourage them to come to my part of the neighborhood as I dream of the day I’ll be able to tell Comcast to ‘piss off’ for good.

By: JoAnne

JoAnne — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 16:08:43 +0000

New Market Tax credits for impoverished neighborhoods? Really?
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Seattle wasted millions of tax dollars installing fiber optic cables downtown. The cables lead nowhere and connect to nothing.
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Sounds like GB2 will be catalytic all right…a catalyst for greedy Seattle politicians.
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By: sam-c

sam-c — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 15:00:07 +0000

The ‘here’s where to sign up’ link doesn’t work for me, anyone else have any luck? would love to sign up and hope that they expand to other areas. C-Link doesn’t serve our area, I don’t want to do business with Comcrap, and Clearwire is getting frustratingly slow. would love internet service where you don’t have to sign up for 3 other things in order to get a decent price.