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Nope, sadly not. Even in San Francisco (which is pretty sad for being the heart of tech) it is cable or legacy DSL. If you are at a building that has an exclusivity agreement with AT&T, you might even end up paying them $50+ a month for 28mbit fiber. (yes, fiber terminates at my door but that's the max speed they offer)

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Well, there is Webpass for some in SF. I pay $60/mo for 100mbits up & down, and some buildings go up to 500mbits. No contracts, and I just hook up to an ethernet jack in my apartment. It is a local startup that is expanding elsewhere.

Yep, webpass is greatest thing ever.. and there's also sonic.net and paxio.com and gowaveg.com depending on where you are too.

I love WebPass, and I used them exclusively in my previous apartment but this new building has this silly exclusivity agreement and Comcast can't make installations on this building as they somehow managed to make this residential building show up as a business address on Comcast's website.

I could get Sonic Fusion FTTN but that's just rebranded AT&T, and peaks at 28mbits. I get better LTE speeds than that.

I tried to bring in MonkeyBrains but the building administration refused, saying they would have to drill into load-bearing columns. Just an excuse.

Webpass is the best Internet service ever. I signed up as soon as our building got it, it was $50/mo then for the 100Mbs. Definitely worth it if you have the opportunity to live in a building that has it. Really straightforward website, billing, and setup. It looks like they're expanding to some other cities. I wish them luck.

To be fair, there is sonic does offer vdsl2 in many parts of the city, over 100Mbit down, albeit a bit less up. There's also webpass for larger buildings which offers almost a gigabit during non-peak times. So SF isn't as dire as you make it sound, though I agree it's behind many other cities.

What?! In Cincinnati I had CincyBell Fibre about three years ago. I think I paid around $60 ~ $70. I don't remember the advertised speed, but it was crazy super fast.

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