Comcast Offers 50 Mbps Residential Speeds
An anonymous reader notes that Comcast is offering a new 50-Mbps / 6-Mbps package for residential customers for $150, starting in Minneapolis-St. Paul and extending nationwide by mid-2010. The new service will use the DOCSIS 3.0 standard, which is nearing ratification. We’ve recently discussed Comcast’s BitTorrent throttling and promise to quit it, and their low-quality ‘HD’ programming. How attractive will $150 for 50 Mbps be compared to Verizon’s FiOS offerings?
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Original post by kdawson
