Comcast has announced that it has begun a nationwide rollout of multi-gig Internet speeds, one that will reach “more than 50 million homes and businesses before the end of 2025.” Download speeds of “up to 2 Gigs” and “up to 5x-to-10x faster upload speeds” are rolling out immediately, with 10G-enabled multi-gig symmetrical services planned for launch in the second half of 2023. Comcast noted that 10G will be delivered to people over existing connections, meaning there won’t be a need to “dig up yards and neighborhoods.”
Goals of the initiative, per Comcast:
- Immediately rolling out download speeds up to 2 Gigs – combined with up to 5x-to-10x faster upload speeds – to millions of homes and businesses; available in 34 cities and towns before the end of 2022; more than 50 million homes and businesses by the end of 2025; and continuing throughout the entire network. Initial rollouts are already underway in Colorado Springs, CO; Augusta, GA; and Panama City Beach, FL, with more launched at a regular cadence through the end of the year
- For Xfinity customers: extending new multi-gigabit network speeds throughout the home with the multi-gig-capable Wi-Fi 6E Gateway, xFi connected home platform, and xFi Pod Wi-Fi extenders
- For Comcast Business customers: Delivering ultra-fast Wi-Fi speeds for businesses with a new multi-gig capable gateway
- Completing the core technical foundation for 10G, which will deliver multi-gig symmetrical speeds over the connections already installed in tens of millions of homes and businesses
- Finalizing transition to a cloud-based, virtualized network that enables faster speeds, greater reliability for customers, while also implementing a network architectural update that enables greater upload and download capacity
- Building multi-gig capabilities that can reach everyone connected to Comcast’s network, not just select neighborhoods and customers, just as Comcast has done with previous network improvements
- Improving energy efficiency, helping Comcast become carbon neutral by 2035
“We’re making our network even smarter and faster, which allows us to quickly deliver true multi-gig Wi-Fi to tens of millions of businesses and residential consumers at an unprecedented pace,” said Charlie Herrin, President of Technology, Product, Experience at Comcast Cable. “Whatever the application, whatever the future holds, our network and world-class, whole-home Wi-Fi experience will be there and ready to power all of our customers’ connected experiences.”
“10G will deliver so much more than just speed,” said Elad Nafshi, EVP & Chief Network Officer at Comcast Cable. “The digitization and virtualization work we are doing today is already enhancing our customers’ connected experiences and delivering better performance.”
From a Comcast press release:
Powered by DOCSIS 4.0, 10G will deliver multi-gig symmetrical speeds to tens of millions of people over the connections already installed in their homes and businesses, without the need to dig up yards and neighborhoods, or pick and choose who gets faster speeds and who doesn’t. The technical updates included in the initiative announced today are a necessary precursor to Comcast’s 10G deployment.
Thanks to this work, Comcast plans to start launching 10G-enabled multi-gig symmetrical speeds to customers in the second half of 2023. That work will happen on a parallel path with the introduction of the faster speeds launching now.
Over the past 24 months, Comcast has made significant advances in 10G technology, including several world firsts. The company has conducted successful tests of all the technical components necessary to deliver 10G speeds to customers and is now looking forward to beginning live trials.
Discussion (5 replies)
Join Discussion →I just upgraded to Gig for a business I do IT for. 1.25 Down 40 up lulz... 200 up coming in November.
And here I'm at with 200/10 (since my account is so old they dropped me to a lower than bottom tier). I had to have my wife subscribe as a "new subscriber" so that we can get 300/20...
Fuck this Multi-Gig internet for homes... You can't use it.. just MAKE IT AFFORDABLE for something usable instead of being raped for $120 for 200/10 as a long-standing customer..
Wish you could switch carriers Space_Ranger. I was on spectrum an went back to Frontier FIOS because it's so much better. And I was coming in here to make the joke.
10gig down and a FULL 100 megabit up! 5 times faster than ever before!
I'm sorry cable modem carriers. You want my money I get it, but you don't offer a competitive service when Fiber is in the area.
What, 10gig down, 256kbit up, with an 800GB monthly cap, so you can blow through your monthly cap in 10.6 minutes? ?
Full duplex, up/down parity and no caps or GTFO.
Some of us are stuck with cable, specifically Spectrum, as there are no other options. We're actually lucky that Spectrum ran cable out to our boonies in the country.
I was/am paying for their 400/20 service. Apparently, at some point, they increased that tier to 500/20, but my speed actually decreased. I used to get 420-430 down and 23-25 up, now I'm lucky to see 320-330 down and 19-21 up. I'm running a 32x8 docsis 3.1 modem that is capable of 1 gbps speeds, so it shouldn't be an issue. Oddly, our internet rarely ever goes out. So, at least it's consistently decent.
Funny thing is there is fiber that runs past the entrance to my neighborhood. They ran it about 2 years ago. No idea who's it is or what it's for. It would be nice if someone offered fiber where I live. I'd jump on it.