Twin Cities gets first DOCSIS 3.0 deployment April 3, 2008
Posted by Lumpmoose in technology.Tags: internet, minnesota
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Minneapolis-St. Paul is the first area of the country to get DOCSIS 3.0 internet access, courtesy of Comcast. You get 50Mbps down / 5Mbps up speeds for $150 a month. That’s not quite consumer-level pricing and is still slower than Japan, but it’s a start. Considering Comcast’s recent degradation of HDTV signal quality however, I’m not convinced they’re willing to upgrade infrastructure as needed.
Powerboost 12Mbps == $3.58/Mbit
Powerboost 16Mbps == $3.31/Mbit
Powerboost 50Mbps == $3.00/Mbit
Absurdly higher, but cheaper per Mbit.
Now…I wonder how quick they’ll ban you for torrenting too many GBytes/Month.