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Comcast Announces Plans for Faster Broadband

October 31, 2008

By Mike Peters

Comcast has announced a new high-speed Internet service that will provide download speeds up to 50 Megabits per second (Mbps) and upload speeds up to 5 Mbps. The service is available with Comcast’s first DOCSIS 3.0 – or wideband – market in the Minneapolis/St. Paul and Philadelphia areas.

Comcast Offers Next-Gen DOCSIS 3.0 Technology for High-Speed Internet 

The new speed tier option is Comcast’s first deployment of next-gen DOCSIS 3.0 (Data Over Cable Service Interface Specifications) technology, which sets a new standard for delivering high-speed Internet service across fiber-optic cable networks.  Comcast expects to deliver even faster speeds of up to 100 Mbps to its customers over the next two years with the capability of delivering higher speeds of 160 Mbps or faster in the future.
 
“This announcement marks the beginning of the evolution from broadband to wideband,” said Mitch Bowling, senior vice president and general manager of Comcast High-Speed Internet, Comcast Cable.  “Wideband is the future and it’s coming fast.  We believe wideband will usher-in a new era of speed and Internet innovation for today’s digital consumers.”
 

Comcast Provides High-Speed Internet Speeds up to 50 Mbps

Comcast is rolling out these extreme speeds in the Twin Cities region now.  Customers will be able to download movies, music, and television shows, as well as upload digital photographs faster than ever.  For example, Comcast customers using the 50 Mbps service could download a 4 GB HD movie in about 10 minutes.

Coupled with the new extreme tier offering, Comcast high-speed Internet residential customers in the Twin Cities region will also enjoy increased upload speeds on their existing services for no additional cost.  Comcast will nearly triple the upload speed of its 6 Mbps/384 Kbps Performance tier to 6 Mbps/1 Mbps, and more than double the upload speed of its 8 Mbps/768 Kbps Performance Plus tier to 8 Mbps/2 Mbps.  In addition, with Comcast’s PowerBoost technology, customers are able to enjoy even faster speeds of up to 12 Mbps downloads and 2 Mbps uploads on the Performance tier and 16 Mbps downloads on the Performance Plus tier for files like videos, games, music, and digital photographs.