[ftigis]

In Singapore there's a telco intending to launch 10 Gbps fiber for 30 SGD (~22.35 USD) per month. likely to be asymmetric though, since their 2.5 Gbps service at ~16.24 USD per month is advertised as 2.5 Gbps down and 1.25 Gbps up.

[denkmoon]

The things you could do with 1.25gbps. Crazy stuff. Vastly different infrastructure/density situations but here in Australia I'm paying ~56USD per month for 0.04gbps up.

[Nursie]

Australia has Abbott and friends to thank for fucking the whole NBN plan up royally.

We would have had fiber to the premises everywhere and affordable gigabit by now, but Abbott decided Australia shouldn't spend money on what he saw as merely a "video entertainment system" and binned it in favour of the current Mixed Technology mess.

Which then actually cost more to implement.

[Guthur]

Pretty sure they intentionally screw it up. It means that the populous will generally think that the government can't provide effective utility at cost and so private equity can move in and provide equally bad utility at monopoly rent prices.

[Nursie]

There’s a bunch of stuff there but I think they were also trying to protect Foxtel so Murdoch could avoid having to compete with Netflix etc.

Assholes all round

[jokteur]

I'm getting symmetric 10 Gbps for 49CHF (~54$) per month in Switzerland, and this is one of the most expensive countries in the world.

[ornornor]

Besides Swisscom, internet is very reasonably priced in Switzerland. I had 1gbit symmetrical without contract or install fee and free equipment (including a standalone fiber to Ethernet converter) for 49.- a month.

Many cities or communities have built a municipal fiber network that any provider can lease and they’ve also wired up all buildings (inside) at the time. Only Swisscom (owned by the govt) is doing everything they can to get in the way of these municipal rollouts and keep the prices high.