Wanted to touch on this post. I think having that kind of bandwidth, given proper and reasonable connectivity outside the &quot;last mile&quot; is a big draw. I&#x27;m a co-founder of a telecommunications start-up (cloud call center stuff) and the thought of running our own DC on the cheap is a serious draw with a proper connection. But that&#x27;s a separate discussion (only 19 buildings right now, etc etc etc).<p>Here in Portland, at my house I currently pay around 200&#x2F;mo for 50&#x2F;20, but only really get 25&#x2F;10 most of the time, on top of their second from lowest end cable TV package. Google Fiber is moving in, but there is another player that is really ramping up here, CenturyLink. As far as the west coast goes, they are the kinds of fiber (from the long chain of acquisitions). Level3, Integra, etc all lease much of their network from CL. But now CL is offering Business 1g lines as well as residential for the same price (around $115-$145&#x2F;mo depending on contract). I got TV (Prism) and 1Gbit for $145&#x2F;mo. The kicker? No caps. No throttling and no data caps at all on neither their residential service nor their business. They also don&#x27;t care if you use your residential line to host servers on. Their entire network is fiber, and they&#x27;ve been building it out since the late 80s.<p>I wonder why Comcast is so much more expensive here than what others are reporting? I suppose as far as Cable Providers go, until this year your choice in PDX has been Comcast or Satellite (Dish &#x2F; DirecTV).