[/caption]You would think that the country's or maybe even the world's fastest internet connection would be in Silicon Valley, or maybe New York. Maybe even in Tokyo, Japan, however, that's not the case. The fastest Internet connection speed can be found in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
The unlikely small city of Chattanooga began offering one-gigabit-per-second internet upload and download speeds on Monday. A rate they claim to be the fastest in the United States, and 250 times the average internet speed in the nation.
For a second you may think, "Oh that's not that great," but then it hits you: imagine, you purchase your favorite movie on iTunes, for example, and you're so excited to see it, you can't even wait. You click "Purchase Movie" and boom! It's there, on your computer, ready to watch without any stops. Now that's what I call cool, and fast, of course.
The mayor of the city, Ron Littlefield said the following about the internet speed:
"It's like any other leading technology, people will invent ways to use it, and having it here will bring those inventive minds to focus in Chattanooga."
Now, Chattanooga is a city of 170,000 people, so it's not exactly the biggest city, so it could happen that they just give the cue to other bigger cities who will then start raising their internet speeds. However, for Chattanooga's sake, we will hope that that's not the case.
The extremely fast internet does not come cheap, however. EPB, the city-owned company that is offering the one-gig speeds will charge around $350 per month for the service.
That's a lot of money to pay on a monthly basis for internet. You could buy a lot for that amount per month. However, the main focus will not be on residents, rather on companies who will actually have a valuable use for the high speed.
The mayor himself will not be getting the one-gig internet for his residence, as he has no current use for it. He says, "I don't think I need one gig right now," he said. "I'd need it for about five minutes and I could download the entire text of the Library of Congress [in that time] and that would be enough. I already have the 30-megabyte [per second] service and it's lighting fast."
He does believe that there are many people who will be able to utilize it, including doctors and engineers who will be able to stream three-dimensional imaging over the web, and discussing it. That is an example of what it could be used for.
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His current internet bill is under $60 per month, which is the average broadband cost in America. This means that the new $350 internet plan will probably only be purchased by companies and wealthy residents, that is, if they can find a use for it.
Still, it's innovation, and it's pretty fantastic as just a few years ago, one-megabyte internet speed was considered absolutely amazing.
It makes you think, when will we have one-terabyte internet speeds...
[Via: CNN]
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