Cox to offer gigabit broadband service by the end of the year

[Himanshu Arora]

Following Google and AT&T, Cox Communications has now announced plans to provide 1-Gigabit-per-second fiber-based broadband service by the end of the year. Cox CEO Pat Esser made the announcement during an interview yesterday with Bloomberg TV at the NCTA's Cable Show.

"We're working on our road map now to bring gigabit speeds to customers this year", Esser said, adding that the company will announce the initial markets within next two to three weeks.

Esser also revealed that the 1Gbps broadband service was on the company's roadmap for quite some time, but recent announcements from Google and AT&T prompted the company to announce them now.

Google was the first major company to offer affordable gigabit broadband. The search giant is currently offering the service in Kansas City and Provo, Utah, and building its fiber network in Austin, Texas. The company announced in February that it has selected 34 cities for possible Google Fiber expansion.

AT&T was next to hop on the gigabit broadband bandwagon, announcing that it'll be offering gigabit internet speeds to Austin residents by mid 2014. Just a week ago, the company published a roadmap that aims to bring fiber Internet connectivity to 100 cities and municipalities across the country.

Other major players like Comcast and Verizon Communications haven't yet announced such an increase in speed. However, Time Warner Cable has raised the speed of its top-tier service in Austin to 300Mbps.

As far as price is concerned, the company hasn't made an official announcement yet. But to stay in competition, it will have to offer the service for around $70 a month, a benchmark originally set by Google in Kansas City.

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[RzmmDX]

That speed is worthless with the data caps.

 

[Greg S]

1Gbps speeds.... 250gb data cap. So that's good for what exactly?

 

[BlueDrake]

At least the US is trying to push such speeds, after Google took the first step in this. I'm kinda depressed with the whole 15Mbps, which is a semi-fiber service here in Canada. Want any faster down speeds, might as well go copper. There's been no push, to bring speeds up in outlying areas. Even if it's neighbouring larger places, they see no real point in the investment.

 

[tipstir]

Yeah the caps too much that's why I drop speed down some might go even more if they rise the price without telling me again. I'll get on that phone. I use to have COX New England prices were great but after a few years it shot-up fast. Service was even greater. I had to have bucket truck do some pole re-wiring drops and the house too had old RG59. Everything was replaced. I think in the end they get you with the cost.

All this high speed comes at cost and it might be $70 now but later down the endless price hikes they're socket to you! Comcast New England and now here in the South they're worst in price and service. I know the top speed of 200 down cost $199 a month that's a lot of money the cap I was told was 350GB but then they said it was dropped. I had the 105 down that was $99 a month.

Gig down prices will be expensive don't let them fool you at these companies.. $70 a month times 12 months plus the extra fees it will be a lot per year.

 

[Solitaire888]

1Gbps speeds.... 250gb data cap. So that's good for what exactly?

About 4 mins 10 seconds?

 

[cliffordcooley]

1Gbps speeds.... 250gb data cap. So that's good for what exactly?

About 4 mins 10 seconds?

Don't you mean 33.3 minutes? Is that not 1Gbits per second and 250GBytes data cap? Meaning 250GBytes divided by 1Gbit (0.125GBytes) per second.

You guys are looking at this all wrong! Pick the data plan you want without having the speed throttled. Learn to govern your own data to match the plan you paid for. If you have to rely on a limited connection to stay within a data cap, you are irresponsible.