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Comcast Increases Internet Speeds

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Comcast Corp. announced Monday that it is increasing the speed of its Blast! tier by 50 percent to 75 Mbps in central Arkansas at no additional charge to customers. 

The company will also introduce the new Extreme 150 Mbps speed tier. This increase is an effort to support the increasing number of Internet connected devices in the home.

The company said the new speeds and tier will be available “immediately” to the majority of its customers in central Arkansas. To get the new Blast! speeds, customers may need to re-start their modems.

Comcast will also notify customers who need to upgrade their modems to receive the increased speeds. Customers who lease modems from Comcast will be able to receive upgraded modems at no additional charge, the company said.

These new speed increases follow Comcast’s Gigabit Pro service, a professional-grade residential fiber-to-the-home product that uses a fiber network to deliver 2 Gbps upload and download speeds.

The company is also testing DOCSIS 3.1, what it calls a scalable, national, next-generation 1 Gbps technology solution, and expects to begin rolling it out in early 2016. The company said that it’s fully deployed, almost every customer in its service area will be able to receive gigabit speeds over its existing fiber and coaxial network.

Internet speeds are becoming increasingly higher, and The Federal Communications Commission measures 25 megabits per second as the benchmark for broadband Internet.

Alex Horwitz, vice president of public relations for Comcast’s South Region, told Arkansas Business in June that the company will be rolling out 2-gigabit service nationwide by the end of the year.

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