Comcast Expands 'Blast!' 16Mbps Availability

said by kilometers3:

I'm surprised they didn't launch this earlier to try and compete with Surewest and it's 10/10, 20/20, and 50/50 internet plans. But then again, Surewest doesn't serve as much of Sacramento as AT&T U-verse does.

said by brianiscool:

Is there a time line to deploy in Miami,Fl? Were living on old technology over here.

said by kilometers3:

Yep. Anyone one the 8 meg plan is automatically upgraded to 16/2 at the end of the month.

said by kilometers3:

I just went off what the article said. :3

"Customers who already get Comcast's highest-speed service, which offers 8 Mbps downloads and 1 Mbps uploads, will be automatically upgraded to the faster service at no charge. The automatic upgrade to the new higher-speed service, called BLAST!, begins June 31. "

said by kilometers3:

Yep. Anyone one the 8 meg plan is automatically upgraded to 16/2 at the end of the month.

said by gworkman7:

And I suppose there will be more to come on February 30th?

The automatic upgrade to the new higher-speed service, called BLAST!, begins June 31.

30 days has September,
April, June and November
All the rest have 31
And February’s great with 28
And Leap Year’s February’s fine with 29

said by Romney2012:

Karl just repeated the error in the Sacramento newspaper. »sacramento.bizjournals.com/sacra···na=yfcpc

said by gworkman7:

And I suppose there will be more to come on February 30th?

said by gsm8:

what should we do about modems especially for those of us that purchased our own

said by deanllllll :

If it doesn't lower prices I don't care.

I live in the Twin Cities DOCSIS 3.0 didn't lower my prices.

said by deanllllll :

I live in the Twin Cities DOCSIS 3.0 didn't lower my prices.

Only competition will, maybe.

Or maybe God, He's gotta look at these prices and think about stepping in.

Oh, I forgot, speed i don't use is great!! yeah.

said by pokesph:

So how is Comcast going to provide 16M+ service when it can't even maintain it's 8M speeds?

We'll see what happens at the end of the month.. you know, on June 31st!

said by pokesph:

So how is Comcast going to provide 16M+ service when it can't even maintain it's 8M speeds?

We'll see what happens at the end of the month.. you know, on June 31st!

said by fiberguy:

I dunno, but next time I pull back into the hotel I'm staying in, (in Sacramento) I'll be sure to ask one of the drivers of one of the 75 comcast construction contractor trucks and see if they can answer that question.

Seriously, was that a serious question? or just an attempt to rant. Did you ask the same question when they went from 1.5 to 3, or to 6M? I wonder if we, in the Twin Cities, asked that when the 50M was launched along with D3.0.

said by fiberguy:

FYI,

Sacramento is actually one of the newer/later built systems. Sacramento Cable (aka Cable Vision of Sacrament) actually started back in 1984. Compared to many of the plants in operation today, the Sacramento system is one of the newest in operation.

HOWEVER, I'd almost be willing to guess you are either in the South Sacramento area, or in the lower Watt/La Riviera area?

Those two areas, especially, have been big issues for years for a couple of reasons. One is the soil. With out going into major details, the soil composition in South Sacramento actually creates problems for the exposed portions of the buried plant. Two, it's a general higher crime area and gets vandalized a lot. In General, Sacramento's plant is vandalized quite a bit, more so than many of the systems I've seen and been in. That actually does create a lot of problems for plant integrity.

Either way, there is a big rebuild / upgrade project going on in Sacramento right now. I was going to say something about it earlier but figured that if I did, it would open a can of worms.

For the record, in SACRAMENTO COUNTY, there is no inherited outside plant. It was built and maintained by the same group of people and was built by the same owner. Sacramento, unlike many systems, is not a piece-together system such as the Twin Cities where about 12 small cable systems were stitched together into one big one. This does not include the Roseville system, (Placer Country) Davis, Woodland, (Yolo County) Isleton, etc. Those were either purchased systems, or in the case of Isleton, a separately operated system from Sacramento Cable.

said by alfnoid:

Uverse is avail in Atlanta and I have yet to see it (blast!) here.