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Time Warner Cable Promises 1 Gbps in LA Before 2016

Dissatisfied with service from the likes of Time Warner Cable, last fall the city of Los Angeles used an innovative approach to get 1 Gbps connections to all city residents: they simply asked if any companies wanted to come to town to build and fund an all fiber network. As we noted at the time this was a fairly obvious pipe dream, experts noting that the city wasn't really bringing any inducements to the table to lure companies to invest.

Hoping nobody will notice that Los Angeles wouldn't be looking to build such a network if they were even remotely happy with Time Warner Cable service, Time Warner Cable now says they've promised Los Angeles leaders 1 Gbps service by 2016:
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The company on Friday said it told the city of Los Angeles that it plans to enhance its service to deliver Internet speeds of one gigabit-per-second for residents, businesses and government offices in 2016. That would be many times faster than the top speeds the company currently offers...."A gigabit per second is unbelievably fast," Stern said. "The network that we have is future-proofed so that we can deliver those types of speeds without having to dig up streets and dig up people's yards. What we're committing to do is make those speeds available to the entire city."
1 Gbps to the entire city of Los Angeles in just two years sounds impressive, but locals shouldn't hold their breath. Time Warner Cable has a tendency to under-deliver, then over-promise. Take North Carolina, for example, when Time Warner Cable publicly promised to deliver 1 Gbps (only after, again, other companies and cities lead the way), while privately lobbying for state laws that made sure those speeds would never happen. Hopefully Los Angeles got that promise in writing.

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But wait...

I thought I didn't want gigabit. Or at least that's what TWC was saying just a few months ago. What happened?!? :P