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Comcast speed & price increases in pipeline
Comcast employees apparently didn't get the Apple Computer Zip-it training, because they're talking about new speed tiers and pricing to rollout in several markets over the next few weeks.
Employees dishing to DSLReports say the 6 Mbps/1 Mbps (download/upload rates) subscribers who pay $42.95 per month will get double the speed to 12 Mbps/2 Mbps, while customers currently getting 8 Mbps/2Mbps at $52.95 per month will soon get 16 Mbps/2 Mbps. There will be no cost for the FiOS-competitive upgrades, and Comcast is keeping their $24.95/month economy 768Kbps/384kbps service.
DOCSIS 3.0-based packages will offer 22 Mbps/5 Mbps service for $62.95 - and speed might get up to 30 Mbps when Comcast's Powerboost technology is added into the equation, say sources. At the top of the mountain is a 50 Mbps/10 Mbps package that could come in as low as $135.95 per month. The so-called "Extreme 50" package may also bundle into a customer's existing services for $100 more a month.
"For the time being," all tiers also come with Comcast's 250GB monthly bandwidth cap. They will also be subject to the company's bandwidth management system that temporarily puts heavy users into a slower QoS if the local node is seeing congestion or if the users are taking up more than 70 percent of their allotted throughput.
Comcast should have a new website for the faster speeds within the next few weeks. Users can do the standard zip code query to see if their neighborhood has been upgraded to DOCSIS 3.0. Comcast says it will upgrade 20 percent of its footprint to 3.0 by the end of the year and 100 percent of its markets by the end of 2010.
For more:
- DSLReports reports on new Comcast speeds, prices
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Posted by Anonymous | July 21, 2009 - 10:00pm
What is wrong with Internet service and pricing in the United States? The service is the slowest and also the most expensive when compared to pricing in just about any other civilized country.
People in the U.S. treat someone seeking internet service as if it is a taboo topic. The internet is a TOOL: for shopping, communicating, use on the job, research, and a million other things that don't include porn. But we all are treated like we are perverts or criminals for wanting decent internet service.
$25 for 1Mbit or less!!! that's a crime... $49.95 from quest for 1.5Mbps DSL!!! Why are the rates on the west coast so much higher than most other areas of the U.S???
Posted by Anonymous | October 28, 2008 - 11:21pm
And so it begins a 250gb cap can’t wait to see this number get smaller and smaller over the years, that’s like having unlimited minutes on your cell phone and your cell phone provider telling you that they are going to charge you the same amount but now you’ll only have 250 minutes of talk time…and here is just another way the U.S. dollar is losing its value, at least on the consumers side
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