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Cablevision To Launch Faster Internet Service
By Mike Sachoff
Staff Writer
Article Date: 2009-05-01
Cablevision Systems Corp has announced plans to launch a new high-speed Internet service that will offer faster broadband connections of up to 101 megabits-per-second.
Cablevision's fiber optic network serves five million homes and businesses in the New York metropolitan area. The service delivers upstreams of up to 15 Mbps, will be offered across the company's entire service area starting May 11.
Cablevision also announced that it was doubling the downstream speed of its WiFi wireless Internet service, to up to 3.0 Mbps.
"Optimum Online Ultra firmly solidifies Optimum as the fastest Internet service in the home, at work and through the air over Optimum WiFi," said Tom Rutledge, Cablevision's chief operating officer. "This is a perfect complement to our existing high-speed data products, which are fast, reliable and far superior to anything available from our competitors."
"There is a reason Optimum Online is the most popular and highly-penetrated broadband service in the nation, and Optimum Online Ultra continues this proud tradition and our longstanding commitment to speed, performance and value."
The faster Internet service will be available for nearly $100 a month. Currently the company offers download speeds of 14 megabits per second for $45 to $50 a month.
It's not clear how much customer demand there is for the faster more expensive Internet service.
"Right now the real demand for 50 to 100 megabits is pretty limited," Todd Mitchell, analyst at Kaufman Bros, told Reuters.
"But over the next two to three years, the number of video applications we all use will grow exponentially so it will become a necessary level of service."
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