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Cablevision Planning 101 Mbps Broadband

Cablevision Planning 101 Mbps Broadband

Cable operator Cablevision has announced it plans to launch a 101 Mbps broadband offering across its entire market beginning May 11. The offering will be prices at nearly $100 per month, and will supplement Cablevisions’s current 15 Mbps offering priced from $45 to $50 a month. The move is seen as a way for the cable operator to ratchet up competition not only with Comcast—which is offering a 50 Mbps option in many of its markets for $140 a month—and fiber-to-the-home services like Verizon’s FiOS and AT&T’s Uverse.

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Virgin Has 150Mb Broadband In The Pipeline For The U.K.

Virgin Has 150Mb Broadband In The Pipeline For The U.K.

In the UK, Virgin has issued the tempting promise that it will be capable of delivering 100 to 150Mbps broadband well before rival BT completes its fiber network. But just because it does doesn’t mean it will, since for the moment the company can see no return in it.

Currently, Virgin offers a top speed of 50Mbps. But is saying it will have broadband of 40-60Mbps when its fiber network is rolled out by 2012.

However, Virgin Media’s chief executive Neil Berkett told the BBC:

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Comcast Says Wideband Available to 30 Pct

Comcast Says Wideband Available to 30 Pct

Cable operator Comcast has announced that its rollout of DOCSIS 3.0-based wideband services that offers Internet connectivity at up to 12 Mbps—and a whopping 50 Mbps downstream in some places—is now complete across 30 percent of its network footprint, and the company anticipates the rollout will be available across 65 percent of its network by the end of 2009. The company says the wideband capability is now available to more than 15 million home and businesses, including ten major markets like Chicgao, Portland, Seattle, Baltimore, Boston, Atlanta, the Twin Cities, and Philadelphia, among others.

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Virgin Bringing 50 Mbps Broadband to UK

Virgin Bringing 50 Mbps Broadband to UK

UK cable operator Virgin Media has announced it will be launching 50 Mbps broadband service in Britain, leveraging the company’s fiber optic network. The move makes Virgin Media the first UK ISP to roll out 50 Mbps capabilities, and the best parrt might be the pricing: the 50 Mbps package will run just £51 per month, or £35 with a landline bundle.

“Today marks a historic moment, for both Virgin Media and the UK,” said Virgin Media CEO Neil Berkett, in a statement. “Our 50Mb service represents the dawning of a new era of high-speed services in the UK and is just the beginning of what we hope to offer our customers over the coming years.”

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Comcast Expands 50 Mbps Wideband Service

Earlier this year, cable operator Comcast began offering 50 Mbps Internet service to customers in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area, and claimed that the new “wideband” offering would be available throughout its entire service area by the year 2010. Now the company is making its first steps in that direction, announcing an expansion of 50 Mbps service in selected markets.

According to Comcast, 50 Mbps service will go online part of New England (including the Boston metro area and southern New Hampshire), parts of Philadelphia, and New Jersey in the next few weeks. Over the next several months, Comcast says the service should be available in 10 major markets and be available to nearly 10 million homes and businesses.  Read more...

UK Broadband Plan Due

UK Broadband Plan Due

Today the British government will release the findings of its review into ways to increase broadband speeds for customers. The hope is to be able to increase speeds to 100 Mbps in the future.

However, the minimum price tag attached is over $10 billion.

Currently the average broadband speed is a little over 10 Mbps. Replacing old copper cables with fiber optic cables would enable much faster speeds. But one estimate is that it would cost over $56 billion to cover the entire country. Even taking fiber to street exchanges would cost $10 billion.

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Comcast Introduces 50 Mbps Internet Service

Comcast Introduces 50 Mbps Internet Service

Cable operator Comcast has begun offering 50 Mbps broadband Internet service in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area, and says it plans to introduce the new high-speed offering throughout its entire service area by the year 2010. Comcast is pricing the new service at $149.99 per month for residential service, which is roughly triple the price of Comcast’s previous highest-bandwidth offering. Business customers will pay $199.95 a month. Although the new service offers download speeds of up to 50 Mbps, uploads on the service are capped at a comparatively slow 5 Mbps

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New NETGEAR Powerline Device Gets 85Mbps

New NETGEAR Powerline Device Gets 85Mbps

NETGEAR yesterday unveiled a new powerline networking device which they say offers up to six times more throughput than its first generation predecessor. The NETGEAR 85 Mbps Wall-Plugged Ethernet Switch (XE104) and should be available shortly for $99.99.

The 85 Mbps Wall-Plugged Ethernet Switch, said NETGEAR, turns any electrical outlet in a home into a four-port Fast Ethernet (10/100 Mbps) connection. Users connect one XE104 to a router and then plug it directly into a wall outlet, and connect another XE104 to Ethernet-ready devices, enabling them to transfer data from room to room over the home’s existing electrical network. The switch reaches data rates up to 85 Mbps with other XE104-connected Powerline devices.

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D-Link AirPlus Xtreme G Wireless Review

Quote from the review:

“D-Link has been a staple of the networked community for a very long time. I even remember purchasing one of their home network starter kits for Ethernet (that’s 10 Mbps for the younger readers). Since that time, much has changed in the world of networked components, one being that we no longer need those pesky wires we were so fond of many years ago.  Read more...

Verizon Rolling Out Fiber-To-The-Premises

From the company’s press release:

Verizon customers in Keller, Texas, soon will be the first to receive groundbreaking high-speed Internet services over Verizon’s fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) network. The company is raising the bar on consumer broadband today by introducing data speeds of up to 30 megabits-per-second (Mbps) in Keller later this summer and in other markets later this year. Prices start at $34.95 per month.

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