Home › News › Industry News
Cablevision to offer aggressively priced DOCSIS 3.0 service
To compete with Verizon’s FiOS service, the New York-based ISP intends on doubling the speed of its Wi-Fi wireless Internet service to 3Mbps, which will be free for Cablevision subscribers. As a comparison, the FiOS service runs about $140 per month, while other competing companies such as Comcast and Charter only offer a more costly 50Mbps.
Cablevision reports that they’re coughing up $300 million, at least $70 per user, to offer both DOCSIS 3.0 access and free Wi-Fi. The new service is expected to debut market-wide beginning May 11. Will you be upgrading?
User Comments (1)
Post a comment|
MrAnderson
on April 28, 2009 3:41 PM |
Will I upgrade? It really depends. How extensive will this "free" WiFi access be? If the range of the WiFi (with in my city/or cities) becomes almost similar to 3G networks from a phone company, then we might have a winner. If that becomes an option I would use it over the pricy phone company 3G data plans. Having broad band access on any device I choose from one provider would be choice! However, the reality for consumers has always been cost prohibitive. It would be most agreeable if I could get high-speed access from just one company, one bill, one reasonable price, and be able to use any device I would like. Moreover, it is important to have more than one company offering this kind of service in order to keep things competitive in price and improved the consumer experience. |
Most Popular
| Trending | Featured |
-
iOS 5.1.1 untethered jailbreak tool released, supports 4S, iPad 3
-
After five days, Facebook ranks as worst IPO flop of the decade
-
Rumor: Windows 8 RC will launch June 1, will ship with Adobe Flash
-
Rumor: AMD "Piledriver" FX CPU production to begin Q3 2012
-
Diablo III becomes the fastest-selling PC game in history
Editors' CPU Picks
Subscribe to TechSpot
Get free exclusive content, learn about new features and tech breaking news.
