Comcast 100 MBit!
Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 1:27 pm
By Deborah Yao
updated 8:41 p.m. ET, Thurs., June. 5, 2008
PHILADELPHIA - Comcast Corp. said Thursday that by early 2010 it plans to offer consumers in most of its markets Internet service so fast they will be able to download a high-definition movie in minutes.
The nation's second-largest Internet service provider — and biggest cable TV operator — will deploy a technology capable of delivering up to 100 megabits of data or more per second in 20 percent of its markets by the end of 2008, Comcast senior vice president of investor relations Marlene Dooner said at the Merrill Lynch U.S. Media Conference in London.
Dooner said the speed was "very competitive" with Verizon's fiber-optic Internet service, which had about 1.8 million subscribers in the first quarter.
updated 8:41 p.m. ET, Thurs., June. 5, 2008
PHILADELPHIA - Comcast Corp. said Thursday that by early 2010 it plans to offer consumers in most of its markets Internet service so fast they will be able to download a high-definition movie in minutes.
The nation's second-largest Internet service provider — and biggest cable TV operator — will deploy a technology capable of delivering up to 100 megabits of data or more per second in 20 percent of its markets by the end of 2008, Comcast senior vice president of investor relations Marlene Dooner said at the Merrill Lynch U.S. Media Conference in London.
Dooner said the speed was "very competitive" with Verizon's fiber-optic Internet service, which had about 1.8 million subscribers in the first quarter.