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Frontier Introducing New 100 Mbps DSL Tier in Connecticut

Frontier Communications says the company is introducing a new 100 Mbps down, 10 Mbps up tier in the Connecticut markets the telco acquired from AT&T. Frontier CEO Daniel McCarthy confirmed the plans on the company's earnings call, but the telco has yet to reveal pricing for the new service.

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However, users in our forums say reps are telling them the 100 Mbps tier will cost $65 a month with auto-pay enabled, or $70 a month without. There's also an optional one year contract that includes a year of Amazon Prime.

This all assumes you can get it. The 100 Mbps speed will undoubtedly be only available to users with ultra-short loop lengths, though the exact distance limitations have yet to be revealed.

The 100 Mbps deployment comes as the company recently reported a $5 million drop in revenues in the acquired territory.

"We're rolling out 100-meg over copper product in Connecticut, and we feel very good that we'll be able to change the trends in the parts of Connecticut that AT&T had not upgraded historically," McCarthy said during the earnings call, according to a Seeking Alpha transcript. "And we should have a nice opportunity going forward."

As part of the merger conditions Frontier also said it will be spending $63 million to expand U-Verse in the state. Sort of. Technically, Frontier's only obligated to bring speeds of 10 Mbps to an additional 100,000 homes, something the telco says is on schedule.

"We're in the process of upgrading the areas that are non U-verse today in many parts of the state," McCarthy said. "As you may recall from the approval docket, we had promised to upgrade 100,000 homes in Connecticut so we are moving forward with that right now."

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atigerman
join:2002-01-19
Tigerton, WI

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atigerman

Member

hard to believe

I have to wonder what the distance of that is..... 100 meg over copper? What is it 10 feet from the CO?

camper
just visiting this planet
Premium Member
join:2010-03-21
Bethel, CT

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camper

Premium Member

Comcast here is $55 for 25mbps

The Frontier offering around that price point looks a lot better.

Hmmmm......

cralt
join:2011-01-07
CT

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cralt

Member

Pump up the copper

I would be happy with just maxed out asdl2+. I think frontier could sell 24m and 100m service just fine here. They can't compete on raw speed with docsis3 but they can compete on price. Have low end tiers that start at $9.99 or $19.99 with steps all the way up to 100meg.A lot of people are on a budget and shop on price. HD netflix works fine on 6meg adsl.

Cablevisions standard service is still 25meg with max of 101. 25meg non-promo is $59
Charter only sells 60meg. non-promo is $59
Comcast is Comcast. $$$

Cthen
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join:2004-08-01
Detroit, MI

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Cthen

Premium Member

Woohoo!

Yay! Welcome to the new robust network in 2010! Oh wait, I forgot, it's 2015 now...

TIGERON
join:2008-03-11
Boston, MA
Motorola MG7550

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TIGERON

Member

It's VDSL

The U-verse Frontier acquired from AT&T's wireline and video operations is being converted to VDSL, not fiber. Essentially the company has already struck deals with video streaming companies such as Amazon Prime and Netflix and doing away with U-Verse.

McCarthy is talking about deploying VDSL to all of Connecticut. Who knows? Maybe this is a step towards G.Fast.

Elite
Kiss My Ass
join:2002-10-03
New Haven, CT

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Elite

Member

How

I don't see them being able to deliver 100Mbps. Maybe if the DSLAM is in your front yard...

Pegasus
Premium Member
join:2008-01-04
united state

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Pegasus

Premium Member

I cant Just see it now

Subs will be getting letters "Congrats! you now qualify for 100/10... but your line will only do 1-3Mbps"