content: Chattanooga has essentially the same thing in EPB Fiber Optics, which offers speeds up to 10Gbps.  Their 1G package is the same price as Comcast's 75Mbps package, has equivalent up/down speeds instead of neutering the upload rate, and with entirely localized and more reliable service and no equipment rentals (for the internet, at least). Comcast knows they can't compete in this market.  EPB wrested control from Comcast in under 3 years (they only started offering service in earnest in 2013).  Comcast was ready to sell their customer base and infrastructure here to Charter (who operate in the next county over) in a bid to lessen their footprint before the FCC shit-canned their merger with Time-Warner.  This is their way of bowing out of the market while fleecing as much cash from their former customers as possible on their way out.