“By putting the fiber out there, that makes the sort of natural increase in speed that happens as electronics gets faster that much easier,” he said. “I think cities that have abundant fiber, and in the case of homes that get fiber to the home, they’re going to be in a better position.”

EPB, an internet, TV, phone and energy company in Chattanooga, has launched a community-wide, 25-gigabits-per-second internet service. The service will be available to all residential and commercial customers in the area, and is operated by a 100% fiber optic network, EPB said in a news release on Aug. 24.

“What we have done is basically laid a community-wide fiber to the home and fiber to the business network, so every every premise, home and business has fiber going directly to the facility or the home,” said J.Ed. Marston, the company’s vice president of strategic communications.

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