City-owned power utility Chattanooga Electric Power Board is introducing 10-gigabit municipal broadband connections for about $300 per month. The service is almost 1,000 times faster than the average U.S. broadband connection. Tennessee’s “Gig City” will also add 3- and 5-gigabit connections to its current 1-gigabit offering. EPB claims the new fiber optic network is the “world’s first” to offer community-wide 10-gigabit Internet service. “Chattanooga was one of the first cities to bypass large commercial Internet service providers and start offering city-run gigabit-speed fiber services for its citizens back in 2008 — about five years before Google Fiber brought comparable speeds to Kansas City,” notes Wired.