Midcontinent Communications (see our user reviews) is a small cable operator in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The carrier's been informing people via Twitter that they're starting to deploy DOCSIS 3.0 technology, something some much larger and wealthier operators haven't been particularly motivated to do. According to a Midcontinent press statement, they've now launched DOCSIS 3.0 in portions of North Dakota, South Dakota and Minnesota. That's right, West Fargo is getting DOCSIS 3.0 before Manhattan. Like most faster DOCSIS 3.0 tiers their top 50Mbps/5Mbps isn't cheap at $124.95 per month, though the company says that the new speedy tier has no caps.

Last summer, Time Warner Cable announced that the company was selling a group of small cable systems in 25 different states to Windjammer Communications. The cable systems, which serve about 80,000 basic cable subscribers and 120,000 revenue generating units (RGUs, or individual services like VoIP, broadband, TV) are too far from Time Warner Cable's main geographical areas of operation.