[deathanatos]

I'm in Silicon Valley, and outside of SF (where the ISP market isn't a monopoly), a gigabit from Comcast costs ~$300/mo. It still seems absurd to me that I'm 20 minutes from companies like Apple and Google, but getting decent ≥100Mbps Internet is expensive and challenging.

(I pay for "business class" however, so my bill is slightly more expensive per Mbps because of that (the $300/mo above is residential, though). But I get an almost nearly static IPv4 address, and customer support that's only moderately bad, as opposed to the residential level support which beyond bad.)

[alexdumitru]

In Romania we have monopolies in most of the cities, but the ISPs have the same price no matter the location.

The prices only differ in very remote locations, where you have to pay either ~$15 for 50Mb/s or ~$25 for 2Mb/s, depending on how remote it is.