A city with two gigabit Internet ISPs, and neither one is Google Fiber

Gigabit Internet service is popping up in all sorts of places, from Google Fiber in Kansas City to major cities like Seattle and even a rural part of Vermont.

But a city with two gigabit Internet service is a rare thing indeed. That's just what Vancouver, British Columbia, is becoming, with a startup called OneGigabit now launching to compete against Shaw, a Canadian ISP that already offers gigabit speed in parts of Vancouver, Calgary, and Edmonton.

Shaw sells gigabit speed to "small pockets" of Vancouver and 250Mbps in other parts of the city for $115 per month, a CBC News article said. OneGigabit will charge just $45 to $65 a month, company founder Eric Kuhnke told CBC, but it will take a while to roll out, and availability will be limited mostly to apartment and condominium complexes. "To be frank, it's uneconomical to serve a single client, with the construction costs that are involved to run fiber to one particular tenant to the building," Kuhnke told CBC.