Friday, November 17, 2017
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Wave Broadband Brings Gigabit-Speeds To All Customers In Washington, Oregon, California
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More ultra-high-speed Internet is coming as Kirkland, Wash., Internet company Wave Broadband is enabling gigabit download speed for all its customers throughout Washington, Oregon and California. Gigabit speed, which allows a massive amount of bandwidth for streaming videos and playing games, will cost customers $80 per month for the first year, then $99 per month after that. Some customers may need a new, updated modem to enable Wave’s service, but no extra wiring is required. The company, which operates a mainly fiber network, has been building out and upgrading its infrastructure on the West Coast for several years to get ready for gigabit speed, said CEO Steve Weed.
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Source: Seattle Times | Nov. 15, 2017
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Mediacom Rolls Out Gigabit Speeds In Lake County (Calif.)
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Mediacom Communications has announced the availability of 1 Gig Internet speeds throughout its Lake County service areas. As a result, homes and businesses in 14 communities passed by the company’s fiber-rich digital network now have access to Internet download speeds that are up to 40 times faster than the minimum broadband definition set by the FCC. “Creating true gigabit communities across our national footprint was a central component of the 3-year, $1 billion capital expenditure plan announced by Mediacom in 2016,” said Shawn Swatosh, Mediacom’s area operations director for Northern California. “Our rollout of gigabit speeds provides area residents and businesses with a distinct technological advantage in today’s global marketplace.”
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Source: Lake County News | Nov. 4, 2017
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GCI’s Closing The Digital Divide In Alaska / By Ron Duncan
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For GCI, Alaska’s largest telecommunications service provider, these challenges made the completion of our Terrestrial for Every Rural Region in Alaska (TERRA) project, a 3,300-mile rural high-speed broadband network launched in 2009 and finished in October, even more rewarding. TERRA delivers high-speed broadband access to 45,000 Alaskans in 84 communities that are spread across an area the size of Texas. The network serves more than 160 schools and medical clinics throughout Western Alaska, a region where the average community has a population of less than 1,000 people and the rugged terrain makes snowmachines (known as “snowmobiles” to non-Alaskans) and small planes the most practical mode of transportation.
Mr. Duncan is co-founder and CEO of GCI, a telecommunications service provider in Alaska.
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Source: The Hill | Nov. 5, 2017
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WOW To Roll Out DOCSIS 3.1-Powered 1-Gig Services In Most Of Footprint
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WideOpenWest said it will have DOCSIS 3.1-powered 1-gig services available in 95% of its footprint by February. WOW started rolling out 1-gig services a year ago, integrating DOCSIS 3.1 on Arris E6000 converged cable access platform hardware. The Englewood, Colorado, provider first deployed DOCSIS 3.1 services a year ago in four markets: Huntsville and Auburn, Alabama; Knoxville, Tennessee; and Evansville, Indiana. At the time, WOW CEO Steven Cochran downplayed Wow’s rush into the 1-gig space, declaring the company’s priority to lay in “edging out” its networks in select designated marketing areas.
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Source: Fierce Cable | Nov. 7, 2017
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CAS Cable Moving Into Marietta, Ohio
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CAS Cable of Parkersburg, Oh., is in the process of building out a new hard-wired service for the city. Shannon Shaulis, sales and marketing director for the cable firm, said CAS is in the process of setting up a new cable network in Marietta, but she said it’s too soon to say when the service will be available to Marietta customers. CAS is now stringing a large cable conduit along the Williamstown Bridge that will serve as a trunk line for the new network, she said. “We had to get permits to go across the Williamstown Bridge, and it took quite some time — it’s a lot of conduit — but we have our own local employees building it from the ground up,” she said.
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Source: Marietta Times | Nov 7, 2017
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