U.S. ISP Beats Others to 10Gbps Internet Punch

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Minneapolis is now home to ‘fastest service the world has ever seen’

A couple of month back, South Korean ISP (internet service provider) SK Broadband gave those attending the 2014 ITU Plenipotentiary Conference in Busan a glimpse of its upcoming 10Gbps (gigabits per second) internet service while the rest of the world, including the U.S., looked on with envy. Well, not so fast. Minnesota-based ISP US Internet has just beaten the South Korean company to the 10Gbps punch by announcing the roll out of a 10Gbps fiber broadband service in Minneapolis.
“US Internet redefines the phrase ‘broadband internet’ with the launch of it’s new 10GB [sic: read 10Gbps] internet service available to residential and small business owners, the fastest service the world has ever seen,” the company said in a recent press release.
Available now for $399 per month, the company’s (and the world’s) fastest internet plan comes with the promise of matching upload and download speeds that are tens of times faster than your average U.S. broadband connection.
It will be interesting to see for how long US Internet is allowed to remain the only provider of 10Gbps internet in the world by others, with a few other companies around the world, including the notable likes of Verizon and Google, also having such high speed internet offerings on their agenda.
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