Comcast will offer lightning-fast Internet connections to more than 1.5 million metro Atlanta homes starting next month, promising speeds twice what rivals Google and AT&T have said they will offer locally.
Installations could be done in a matter of weeks, say officials for Comcast, who plan to announce the plan today.
The proposed 2 gigabit-per-second service would be 200 times faster than the average for U.S. homes. It would allow customers to download an HD movie in about 12 seconds and families to simultaneously use lots of online connections for work and play with little delay.
The price? Not yet set, the company said.
Comcast, both the nation’s and metro Atlanta’s largest cable TV provider, would shoot past the service that Google and AT&T have said they will sell within certain metro Atlanta cities and will or already do offer in several other cities elsewhere.
It kicks off Comcast’s national roll out of the 2-gig residential service this year in its markets, becoming the biggest U.S. bet yet on home gigabit and faster speeds.
The biggest factor in Comcast’s move is whether it will offer the service at a price that is affordable for many of its customers.
Read more of the story at myAJC.com and in the Thursday print edition of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
