Cable tech could hit a gigabit today, but why bother when customers lack choice?<\/p>\n
“Perhaps you should switch to another cable company\u2026 oh, that’s right, we’re the only one in town.”<\/p>\n
Gigabit-class broadband is capturing the imagination of Internet users throughout the country. With Google and other companies bringing fiber-based services that deliver a gigabit of data each second to the home, communities are accelerating their push to get the highest speeds.<\/p>\n
A consumer who really needs 1,000 megabits of bandwidth is probably a rare creature, but excitement over fiber deployments shows there is at least some demand for what is a ludicrous speed compared to most home Internet connections.<\/p>\n
Cable companies haven’t been ignoring this consumer demand\u2026 but they haven’t done anything to satisfy it, either. Comcast demonstrated the “first ever 1Gbps broadband speed download over a production HFC [hybrid fiber-coaxial] network” two and a half years ago at the NCTA [National Cable and Telecommunications] conference, and the company showed off a 3Gbps technology at this year’s cable show…<\/p>\n
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