In an exciting if mistrustful announcement today , Comcast , everybody ’s least pet party , just told an consultation at CES that itwould jump offering home customers Gb internet speedsin 2015 . That ’s this year ! And , well , we ’ll believe it when we see it .
The Comcast exec ’s announcement came in conjunction with a Broadcom consequence showcasing the newfangled DOCSIS 3.1 crisp which enables speeds of up to 2 gigabits per second . Both Comcast and Liberty Global were there to support Broadcom ’s new engineering science , and Comcast sort of steal the show .
That would be a huge improvement , since Comcast ’s current “ Extreme ” design only offers speeds up to 150 megabits per second . It remains ill-defined incisively how many customers would get Comcast ’s new newspaper headline - grabbing gigabit offering . Comcast has been dangling the possible action of offer these stop number for a while . A couple class ago , itshowcased the abilityto reach 3 Gb / s speeds on its connection and herald last twelvemonth that some of its customerswould enjoy all fibre connection . It eventrademarked a catchy namefor a new service : “ honest Gig . ”
All that said , Comcasthas also arguedthat the mean American does n’t ask superfast Gb internet . That particular financial statement was a seemingly justificative swipe at Google Fiber andother startup ISPs offering much quicker connectionsat lower damage . However , now that Comcast is preparing to take over the entire countryif the proposed Time Warner deal give-up the ghost through , the ship’s company is on the spur of the moment trying to play competitive . Which is probably an appropriate matter to dowhen being accused of anti - competitive behavior . [ PC World ]
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