Cablevision confirms 101 Mbps speed tier

Cablevision To Blast Out 101-Mbps Internet Service [Multichannel News]

Confirming a earlier report, Cablevision, the nation's fifth largest cable provider, has announced that next month it is launching a new 101 Mbps speed tier for its broadband service. The company's DOCSIS 3.0 tier will be the fastest cable broadband speed available anywhere in North America, passing five million homes in New York, Connecticut and New Jersey. Upstream speeds will be available up to 15 Mbps.

Cablevision plans to call the new speed tier Optimum Online Ultra, and it will be priced at a $99.95 monthly charge. Cablevision competes with Verizon's fiber-to-the-home FiOS product across much of its footprint, but FiOS maximum speed is 50 Mbps which will be more than doubled by Optimum Online Ultra. According to this article, Cablevision plans to offer the new speed tier without a usage cap.  Cablevision's strategy (not to set caps) is not as contradictory as it seems to the Time Warner plan to test packaging higher speeds with tiered usage.  The nation's number 2 cable company said they would also launch an ultra high speed, unlimited usage plan at around $140 per month.

With speeds like Optimum Online Ultra that blow the competition away, it's no surprise that over 52% of the homes passed by Cablevision are subscribers to its broadband service, nearly twice the national average. And the super-fast speeds that DOCSIS 3.0 brings to cable broadband mean that you can stay tuned here for continued announcements of speed increases from America's cable companies.  We're watching the roll-out of these new speeds closely while we prepare our network for new advanced services like DOCSIS 3.0.

Comments

[Alec Breen]

When are we getting DOCSIS 3.0? ;-)

[menace]

Goodbye fios

[Derek Licciardi]

++ to the when are we getting $99 100Meg connections. Makes me think I'm paying too much for my 20Meg connection today. It's worthy to note that in New York there's competition. You have multiple choices for your cable service. Amazing what a bit of competition does for a market. For the rest of us where our governments granted cable monopolies, well you get the picture... I'm not holding my breath.