fiber optic internet availability in Nashville? (Mount Juliet: buying a house, buying, contractor)

[nbourbaki]

Hi all,

I was wondering if any knew about when Nashville (specifically the Hillsboro/Belmont area) would be getting fiber optic based residential internet connections (like Verizon Fios or ATT U-verse or any others I don't know about)?

My limited research has really only come up with DSL and cable, neither of which is all that ideal. (ATT, Comcast, verizon, earthlink, etc).

Any thoughts?

[thebigtymer]

As far as I know, the only place in the Nashville area that has any sort of fiber-to-the-home service is Mount Juliet.

TDS TV! (http://www.tdstelecom.com/tdstv/broadband.asp - broken link)

They offer 15Mbps down/2 MBps up internet service in limited areas of Mt. Juliet (the only area they confirm on their website is Del Webb at Lake Providence).

I'm considering buying a house before the end of the year, I may consider Mt. Juliet for this reason (as well as them having the nearest WOW Wingery - they have quite a few of them in Louisiana, and I loved the wings from there).

[nra]

Yes, TDS is the only company that provides fiber optic internet connectivity. We Have it and my husband jumped with joy when he heard abt it.

[MontanaGuy]

I have Verizon high speed internet and I work from home as a contractor for one of the telephone companies so I need speed and reliability and I have no complaints so far. From what I understand probably the only people who need speeds that are faster than what I have are gamers. I don't know if that's what you're into but they really require some blazing speeds. For the average person I'm not sure the expense would really be worth it for a download that might be a split second faster. When I was getting my service set up I was going to get the very fastest speed they had and the customer service person told me that unless I was a gamer I wouldn't really need it so I got the second fastest speed and it works just fine.