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Web Access Getting Faster - Minneapolis/St. Paul Comcast offers 50mbps
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Minneapolis/ St. Paul Minnesota will have access to blazing internet speeds if customers will pony up the $149.95 per month to Comcast. Using what they refer to as “wideband” modems, Comcast offers “up to” 50 megabits per second download speed. At that rate a two hour movie will download in a few minutes.
Mitch Bowling, Comcast’s senior vice president and general manager of high-speed Internet, said in an interview the company chose the Twin Cities based on the work his group has done with the local operations team there.
“We didn’t make the decision [to deploy in Minneapolis/St. Paul] based on competition,” he said. “It’s a solid, operational market. We had to start somewhere, and it’s really been great.”
DOCSIS 3.0, which provides higher-speed connections by bonding together 6-Megahertz channels, has been viewed chiefly as a way to compete against fiber-to-the-home services, such as Verizon’s FiOS Internet, which advertises 50-Mbps connection speeds.
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