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Charter has announced that information technology has extended gigabit ethernet availability to another four meg customers in what the company calls its "Summer of Gig." The service actually offers speeds of up to 940Mbps, but hey, who's counting? The new announcement for Spectrum Internet Gig covers markets in Cleveland; Erie, Pennsylvania; Orlando, Florida; and Toledo, Ohio. Overall, more 27 one thousand thousand people now have access to gigabit service via Charter.

The company writes:

Overall, Spectrum Net Gig is now offered to more than 27 million homes. That's more than than halfway to our goal of making gigabit connections available to virtually our entire 41-land footprint. By Labor Twenty-four hours, we'll exist rolling out to even more cities to get closer to that twelvemonth end goal.

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Charter serves almost 50 1000000 homes in full, and so a 27 meg rollout means more than half the company'southward customers theoretically have access to gigabit service at prices ranging from $105 – $125 depending on local competition. There are a few other bits and pieces to exist aware of likewise. While the service is marketed as gigabit Ethernet, that's only true for download speeds; upload speeds are capped at 35Mbps. Granted, that'due south withal adequately quick by Usa standards. My ain cyberspace service is a off-white bit cheaper than what Charter is offering (~$60 as opposed to $105) but I'k also but getting 115Mbps down and 11Mbps up. That's low enough to make the 35Mbps cap Lease offers look downright appealing by comparison, to say aught of the phenomenon departure 100MBps downloads would make to my reviewing. Point is, more speed is always skillful.

Ars Technica points out that Charter customers have some other do good as well, albeit something of a temporary one. Unlike Comcast, which enforces both information caps and overages for reasons completely unrelated to network maintenance, Charter is banned from doing so every bit role of its merger agreement with Fourth dimension Warner Cable. Banned, at least, until 2023 at which point all bets are off.

Businesses are also able to use for the service via Spectrum Business Net Gig, which is bachelor to minor and medium-size businesses "in every market where gig is available to residential customers." Unlike Comcast, which has deployed all-fiber connections in some markets, Lease intends to keep using coaxial cable for habitation connections. That could alter in the future if 5G tin can deliver its promised performance wirelessly, though I doubtable enough of customers would rather take slower but more consequent wired service over leaping for 5G wireless connectivity at unproven connection rates.

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