[1st-mile-nm] Comcast offers Utah customers 1-Gig internet

[John Brown]

This is what a Gig should generally look like.

Take a couple of days ago at a client site on our fiber ring...

http://beta.speedtest.net/result/6251420743

Maybe I need to hire some lobbyists and get some puff articles written
about us :)


On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 1:40 PM, Christopher Mitchell
<christopher at newrules.org> wrote:
> The article has many shortcoming and is a reminder of how much bad /
> incomplete reporting there is even in a time when all journalism and
> reporting are being cut back. Somehow there is still time to do puff pieces
> on the most powerful companies on the planet.
>
> Guessing that those areas where you can get the new service for half price
> are the areas that already have some comparable service.
>
> This is being marketed as a gig but it is a gig in one direction. In other
> markets, the fastest upstream speeds are something like 35 Mbps. So you  get
> 1,000 in one direction, 35 in the other. Want to do off-site backup?  Too
> bad. You can't take full advantage of the downstream because the upstream is
> congested, too bad.
>
> You want to talk about bandwidth caps?  Well the reporter didn't.
>
> But we have yet another reporter making it seem like Comcast is so amazing
> because they cannot be bothered to understand just how limited the Comcast
> product is, overpriced, and generally totally unimpressive when compared to
> the companies actually making good investments to serve local businesses and
> residents.
>
> Other than that, it is great.
>
> Christopher Mitchell
> Director, Community Broadband Networks
> Institute for Local Self-Reliance
>
> MuniNetworks.org
> @communitynets
> 612-276-3456 x209
>
> On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 1:21 PM, Richard Lowenberg <rl at 1st-mile.org> wrote:
>>
>> This article does not mention UTOPIA, serving the same service areas.
>> It will not extend to underserved rural areas of Utah.
>> RL
>> ----------
>>
>> Comcast offers Utah customers 1-Gig internet.
>> Service available to all areas served by the cable company.
>>
>> By TOM HARVEY | The Salt Lake Tribune
>> Apr 25 2017
>>
>>
>> http://www.sltrib.com/home/5213417-155/comcast-offers-utah-customers-1-gig-internet
>>
>> Comcast is launching its new 1-gigabit-per-second internet service
>> Tuesday, making Utah the first where the cable company has rolled out the
>> super fast speeds to all its customers in a single state.
>>
>> Comcast says anyone in its service area now may order the service, which
>> the company is offering in competition with CenturyLink and Google Fiber,
>> whose comparable services are available only in certain areas.
>>
>> While Comcast has been testing the service in other areas, "Utah is the
>> first state that gets it rolled out as a whole throughout our entire
>> footprint," said Leslie Oliver, director of external affairs.
>>
>> Many of Comcast's current internet customers receive a 150-megabit service
>> now. It can download a two-hour movie in about a minute and a half. With the
>> 1-gigabit service, that same movie will take eight seconds to download.
>>
>> "We just not taking an incremental step here," said Mike Spaulding,
>> Comcast's vice president of engineering. "We're taking a step forward in
>> terms of speed availability to our consumers."
>>
>> The cost is planned at $159.95 a month without a contract, but two
>> promotions also are being tested to boost participation.
>>
>> One will offer the service for $70 a month in certain Salt Lake City,
>> Provo and North Ogden areas. The other promotion will be for $109.99 a month
>> across the rest of the state.
>>
>> The service runs over the company's existing cable network and requires
>> only the installation of a modem with a built-in home wireless network.
>>
>> It's the wireless component that excites Merlin Jensen, area vice
>> president for Utah and Arizona.
>>
>> "We will have the fastest in-home wireless experience for customers," he
>> said.
>>
>> Comcast's service area stretches north to south from Logan to Spanish
>> Fork, and east to west from Park City/Heber City to Tooele.
>>
>> CenturyLink has been offering super fast internet speeds in Utah starting
>> at $79.99 a month. But it's not currently available in all areas served by
>> the company, which is building a fiber-optic network.
>>
>> Company spokeswoman Michelle Jackson said CenturyLink offers 1-gig service
>> to more than 100,000 homes and businesses but wouldn't say how many now
>> subscribe.
>>
>> "We are continuing to aggressively expand our gigabit service offering to
>> both businesses and residents," she said in a statement, which also said
>> slower speeds were sufficient for most consumers.
>>
>> Google Fiber currently offers 1-gig service in Provo and certain areas of
>> Salt Lake City for $70 a month.
>>
>> The company bought Provo's fiber optic network four years ago and has been
>> building a network in Salt Lake City, where it now offers service in
>> neighborhoods that include downtown and parts of the university area and
>> Sugar House.
>>
>> Google Fiber also said it is continuing to build its network to serve more
>> homes and businesses.
>>
>> But it's that piecemeal approach, and the need to build out networks
>> before even being able to offer the speedy service, that Comcast apparently
>> sees as its competitors' vulnerability.
>>
>>
>>
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