Living in Vermont I can tell you that electric prices are not cheap. Too bad the electric companies don't pass the saving to the consumer. In my area, Central Vermont Power was purchased by Green Mountain Power and my power bill went up 50% overnight.

The high rating is probably due to VTel's Gigabit service.

With the continuing audit process and complete transparency I would trust OpenBSD along with OpenSSH, etc.

I live in Springfield, VT about a mile from VTel.

I do. That is 680 Mbs down and 750 Mbs up.

They are by far the best phone company I have every dealt with. They answer the phone on the first ring and will make changes to your phone service while on the phone. I dropped MCI for my long distance after they pissed me off to no end and went to VoIP. I called VTel and had them drop MCI from my account and she made the change while on the phone. I called MCI and told them to drop my account. The lady at MCI asked when I contacted my telephone company and I informed her I just got off the phone with VTel and the did it while on the phone. She argued with me that was impossible. I said then call them. A few minutes later the MCI lady called back and told me she has never seen service like this and I should and I should stick with them. I did as they are very customer oriented and the only other option in town is Comcast.

I had VTel install fiber to my home in November, 2012 and was one the first in the area. There has been some pains in the deployment and it took 2 long years to get it. I finally got it when I saw the installers working on a neighbor's house (her sister works for VTel and is in charge of scheduling the deployment). Talked to the installers and they were at my house later that day :) Depending on where you do a Speedtest.Net, I have seen 680 down and 750 up.

I live in Springfield, VT and the local telephone company, VTel, started offering Gb fiber to the home for $29.95/month. I guarantee you I pickup the phone first chance I got to find out about it. It tool almost 2 years to get it. In the end I believe it was false advertising. I only get 550Mb down and 650Mb up but it was better then the 12 Mb down and 2 Mb up for the same price.

I truly believe that the concealed carry gun laws are to thank and more people defending themselves. Criminals now fear being shot by armed citizens. It shows that Brady Campaign is wrong. If it were the video games, then crime would be falling in Europe and the world too.