The unlikely success of California’s Sonic.net (2012) (opens in new tab)

I've had Sonic service for about 15 years. I recently upgraded to 50Mb/s down, 6 Mb/s up. It's provided through AT&T, but there are no monthly caps and no middle boxes. They just forward the IP packets. Sonic is also in favor of net neutrality.

How's the fiber service in SF coming? Anyone on that?

Sonic is still alive, except that now (a) they have fiber coverage in San Francisco https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14424753 and (b) it's cheaper ($50/mo)

As a Sonic fiber customer in the Richmond, my only complaint is that phone service is not optional. It adds ~10 line items to my bill for regulatory fees at every level of the government from the city, county, state, and federal. I could happily do entirely without the phone service. I don't even have a home phone, who does?

Here's HN discussion of a 5 month old map of sonic fiber in SF. https://thatdan.github.io/sonic_fiber/

sonic, please build out the fiber to my neighborhood (san carlos)!