Ask five providers "how much is 1 Gig dedicated internet?" and you'll get five versions of "it depends" — because it genuinely does. Dedicated internet access is priced per building, not per city. The fiber may already be in your riser, or it may be across the street, or three blocks away. Two or five carriers may serve your address, or exactly one. Each answer moves your monthly rate substantially.
Here's the good news hidden in that annoyance: because pricing is building-specific, the right process — making every qualified carrier bid on your specific address — reliably produces a number lower than any published rate card. Flat published prices have to be padded for the worst-case building. Yours probably isn't the worst case.
If a carrier's fiber already terminates in your building ("lit" or "on-net"), you get their best pricing and a 2–4 week install. "Near-net" means fiber passes close by and a short lateral brings it in — typically standard pricing with a 60–90 day timeline. Off-net means real construction, priced case by case. Knowing your building's status across every carrier is the single most valuable piece of intelligence in the quote process — and it's exactly what a free qualification produces.
One carrier in your building means their price is the price. Two or more means leverage. Manhattan's dense towers routinely have three or more lit carriers; the winning quote in a competitive building can undercut the same carrier's rate in a captive building for identical service. This is the entire argument for shopping multi-carrier rather than calling whoever mailed the flyer.
The pricing curve bends hard in your favor as speeds rise. Moving from 100 Mbps to 1 Gbps does not cost ten times more — often it's closer to two or three times, because most of a circuit's cost is the physical delivery, not the bits. This is why right-sizing with headroom usually beats buying small and upgrading twice.
Twelve-, twenty-four-, and thirty-six-month terms each step the monthly rate down. Longer isn't automatically better — it depends on your lease, growth plans, and how fast prices are falling in your building. A good agent models all three and tells you which risk is worth taking.
Voice, security, TV, and backup circuits on the same account unlock package pricing — and consolidate everything onto one bill with one renewal date. The bundle discount is real, but only bundle what you'd actually buy.
With every caveat above: NYC businesses in lit buildings frequently find 100–500 Mbps DIA lands in the low-to-mid hundreds per month, 1 Gbps commonly runs mid hundreds in competitive buildings, and multi-gig tiers scale far more gently than intuition suggests. Captive buildings and construction cases run higher. The only number that matters is the one for your address — and that one's free.
That process is literally what we do all day, backed by a promise: bring any lower qualified quote for the same service and term, and we'll beat it. Your building's real number is one text away — 347-870-0965.
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