Sonic.net news and updates.
The Press Democrat this last weekend published a feature about our growing Gigabit Fiber-to-the-home networks. As Fusion grows, we’re beginning to convert the top communities to Fiber. Read the article to learn more!
Residents in Sebastopol have been noticing our construction crews in the area over the last few weeks, so we can’t keep it a secret much longer: Fiber coverage is expanding! With the first phase of construction complete and online today, we’ve got customers enjoying both 100Mbps and Gigabit speeds today. To learn more about the project and what’s next, click here.
Our first Fiber-to-the-home customers are online now in Sebastopol, and Ars Technica has published a feature story on our efforts to bring upgrade Fusion to Fiber! They cover some of the history behind Fusion, and the steps toward Fiber for our Fusion customers in Sebastopol. You can read the full article here.
Today is a day of protest online, with sites such as Wired, Wikipedia and Google all going dark or publishing banners in protest of the proposed SOPA and PIPA acts. You can learn more, or to protest Internet censorship, write congress.
Fusion Broadband + Phone offers uncapped broadband combined with reliable land line home phone for a single low price: only $39.95/mo.
This is an unbeatable deal for Broadband at up to 20Mbps plus land line voice with unlimited nationwide calling. If you are not yet a Sonic.net Fusion customer, you can check for service availability here. Switching is easy, so don’t wait.
For businesses that need symmetric dedicated-line service, our FlexLink Carrier Ethernet solutions offer consistent and reliable speed at a competitive cost, with a 24x7x365 service level agreement. FlexLink is the perfect upgrade for businesses with T1 service. And now, extended until May 31st, we’re offering sale pricing on 10Mbps/10Mbps Ethernet service for only $599/mo. Availability is limited, and a 36 month term commitment is required. Visit the FlexLink Ethernet product page to learn more.
The San Francisco Chronicle reports on Sonic.net’s aggressive anti-data-cap stance, saying that “The offerings beg the obvious question: If a small regional Internet service provider thinks it can profitably deliver such services, what’s stopping its huge, high-margin rivals? …in a market brimming with Internet power users, Sonic’s increasingly differentiated products seem to be catching on.” You can read the full article here.
This week we completed much of the construction work for our first section of Fusion Fiber Broadband+Phone service. As we achieve higher quantities of customers in an area on our copper services, we plan to roll out fiber at the Fusion prices but with speeds of up to 1 Gigabit. The Press Democrat published an update, you can read it here.
Sonic.net CEO and Co-Founder Dane Jasper was interviewed on TWiT’s “Triangulation” show a few weeks ago. We touched on topics from Sonic.net history to broadband competition, FTTH, net neutrality and IPv6. Watch it here.
We got some press this week about our massive growth over the last month, and the challenges as our Fusion product experiences a huge increase in demand. You can read the article here.