Salisbury (NC) just rolled out America's fastest Internet service yet

Looking for a good deal on Internet service? You may want to move to Salisbury (NC). The city of about 34,000 residents put the finishing touches on its newest broadband service, one that's 10 times faster than Google Fiber. Sure, it's vastly more expensive, but compared with what else is out there at the same price point -- including the best offerings from Comcast, Verizon and the like -- Salisbury is perhaps the only place in the country that offers as much bang for your Internet buck. Now, city officials say they're ready for prime time. "We can reach anyone in the city with 10-gig fibe, right now," said Kent Winrich, head of Salisbury's publicly owned Internet utility, Fibrant.

Fibrant is charging home Internet users a pretty penny -- $400 a month for its 10 Gbps plan. Still, consider that for about the same price ($300 a month), Comcast's speeds top out at only 2 Gbps -- that's five times slower than Salisbury's peak speeds. Just a year ago, Comcast was charging $400 for speeds of 505 megabits per second, about 20 times slower than Fibrant's comparably priced 10-gig service. So what Fibrant is selling is both faster and more economical -- kind of like buying cashews in bulk from Costco or Wal-Mart instead of at your local grocery.