PlanetLOWYAT: Comcast Offers 50 Mbps Residential Speeds

What? Comcast Offers 50 Mbps Residential Speeds.

Comcast Corp. will start offering faster Internet services in Minnesota’s Twin Cities region on Thursday, with plans to extend that type of next-generation system to its entire service area by 2010. The new service will use the DOCSIS 3.0 standard, which is nearing ratification.

The $150-a-month offering for residential customers costs about triple Comcast’s priciest option to date and likely will appeal only to heavy users of online music, movies and other large Internet files.

“A decade ago we couldn’t even conceive of … YouTube,” Google Inc.’s video-sharing service, said Greg Butz, Comcast’s vice president for marketing and product development. “We hope that this platform we’re building will drive and create that next-level invention and drag with it a broad array of customers.”

With the faster service, a customer could download a 4 gigabyte high-definition movie in about 10 minutes, compared with about an hour at previous speeds.

Comcast will also be offering up to 50 Mbps for downloading, or receiving, files. Uploading, or sending, files will be at up to 5 Mbps. The monthly $150 price is available only to residential customers; small businesses will have to pay $200 for a package that includes additional technical support and security software.

What is the fastest broadband speed in Malaysia so far? 4 Mbps from TMnet? Probably we can reach the similar seed another decade. Check Malaysia Broadband providers list here.

Source: Google News