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Source: Another Round of Comcast Speed Increases Incoming

A Comcast insider tells DSLReports that Comcast customers can look forward to a number of new speed increases this summer. If you're a regular reader, you know that Comcast just got done with a number of new speed increases for customers, with the company's "Performance" tier bumped from 25/5 to 50/5 Mbps, their "Blast" tier from 50/10 to 105/10 Mbps, and their Extreme 105 speeds bumped from 105/20 Mbps to 150/20 Mbps.

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Deployment of these upgrades occurred on a staggered, market-by-market basis.

Now a source tells me Comcast is pushing through another wave of upgrades they've yet to formally announce. This latest batch involves bumping the company's 50 Mbps down, 10 Mbps up tier to 75 Mbps down, 10 Mbps up. The source says there's many markets that still haven't seen Comcast's 150 Mbps tier, which the company will continue to expand.

The source couldn't offer much on Comcast's looming two gigabit "Gigabit Pro" tier, outside of the fact that support continues training to support the tier, and marketing continues pondering just what it should cost. After some delays, it looks like the service should finally go live in a limited number of markets by July 1.

A wider Gigabit Pro launch won't be conducted until early 2016, at which point Comcast will also begin pushing gigabit service to a number of new markets using the (by then) freshly ratified DOCSIS 3.1 standard. Other notable items on Comcast's radar include the full migrations to higher-quality MPEG4 TV signals, which is expected at the tail end of this year.

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vol1fan
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vol1fan

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I still haven't seen the last upgrade yet.

SeattleMatt
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join:2001-12-28
Seattle, WA

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SeattleMatt

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MPEG-4

This, IMO, is the biggest part of this story. Incredibly smart move - and will open up handfuls of QAM's for either more HSI channels or additional HD - including, as stated - better quality picture.

On FIOS - comparing an MPEG-2 HD channel to one in MPEG-4 was stunning.