Comcast expected to raise broadband speeds
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Company next week plans to announce another speed burst for its broadband services, according to sources.
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New rules on broadband switching seem to have speeded up the process of moving net firms.
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Comcast Corp. CMCSA.O, the top U.S.  cable operator, on Thursday reported its quarterly net profit  rose 10 percent, boosted by more high-speed Internet customers.
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By Wayne Heilman, The Gazette, Colorado Springs, Colo.  Sep. 19--Cable television giant Comcast Corp. plans to open a  customer-service center in northwest Colorado Springs by year's end that  eventually could employ 400.
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By Daily Record Staff & Wire Reports  Broadband Internet service will be available in some parts of Delmarva within one year, according to the Eastern Shore Technology Council.
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Comcast Corp., the largest U.S. cable operator, on Wednesday posted a third quarter profit, boosted by high-speed Internet customer gains that offset slower growth in basic video subscribers.
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Time Warner Cable will try selling consumers broadband service based on how much bandwidth they use, a move that could turn the home broadband pricing model in the U.S. on its head.In a trial planned for later this year in Beaumont, Texas, the service provider will offer four tiers of service at different prices. Customers who used more bandwidth would pay more.The details of the tiered pricing plan haven&#39;t yet been set, according to Time Warner spokesman Alex Dudley. The offer will only go out to new customers, he said.Some service providers charge different rates based on the speed of a service, but in the U.S. they typically allow each customer to send and download as many bits as they like in a month. Under that model, some subscribers who exchanged large files through peer-to-peer services reportedly have been cut off. Comcast, the biggest U.S. cable operator, has said it&#160;sometimes slows peer-to-peer traffic&#160;during peak demand periods.In some other countries, Internet users have long endured bandwidth caps. And Web hosting companies typically charge site owners based on how much data they exchange with visitors.Tiered pricing could help settle the ongoing argument over the fairness of certain subscribers and online content providers using up more network capacity than others, according to Ovum analyst Mark Seery. In fact, he thinks the whole industry will go down this path eventually.&quot;It&#39;s difficult to charge, appropriately, different customers if they have such widely divergent uses of bandwidth,&quot; Seery said. And trying to target one type of application, such as illegal peer-to-peer file sharing, raises political issues, he added.&quot;There&#39;s no justification for blocking legitimate uses of peer-to-peer,&quot; Seery said. &quot;The right focus is on who&#39;s using what [bandwidth] and what they should be charged for it.&quot;Many other transport industries, such as shipping, rail and courier services, charge different rates based on how much the customer uses, Seery said. Some have shifted to that system over time. For example, toll bridge operators once charged trucks based on the value of what they wanted to carry over, and U.S. railroads could arbitrarily carry goods from one customer and not from another, according to Seery. Neither model lasted.Time Warner operates in 33 states but is a relative underdog in the U.S. broadband industry, with 7.4 million high-speed data customers. Comcast has 12.9 million.&#160;
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Comcast Corp , the largest  U.S. cable TV operator, on Thursday reported a small rise in  profit as it lost basic video subscribers during the third  quarter due to stronger competition from rival video services  through satellite and telephone operators.
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By Carly Harrington, The Knoxville News-Sentinel, Tenn.  Dec. 8--Comcast Cable plans to expand its Knoxville headquarters and add  more than 200 jobs in East Tennessee next year.
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US broadband deployment is accelerating as underserved rural and inner city areas gain greater access to new services, according to a government report.
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DENVER, Sept. 19  /PRNewswire/ -- Comcast is adding more than 500 jobs across Colorado, the company announced today.  New customer service employees will assist local residential and commercial customers from two new Comcast customer service call centers in Denver and Colorado Springs.
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Time Warner Cable is looking to revolutionize home broadband pricing in the U.S. by selling consumers service based on bandwidth usage.
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NEW YORK - Comcast, the largest US cable operator, posted a third-quarter profit Wednesday on better-than-expected gains in high-speed Internet customers and raised its full-year outlook for subscriber growth.
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A UK internet service provider is offering broadband that is sixteen times faster than average packages.
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By Fredrick J. Johnson  By Fredrick J. Johnson  THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL  Cox Communications will raise rates next month for some of its digital cable and high speed Internet services but plans to maintain the current rates for basic and expanded cable service.
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LAS VEGAS - The major U.S. regional carriers want to leapfrog cable operators with advanced video services over IP (Internet Protocol), and expected upcoming U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rulings may help pave the way for those roll-outs.
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A new homepage design takes advantage of faster broadband speeds in those markets.