, Comcast is one step nearer to providing multi-gig symmetrical speeds over cable. This week, the corporate started a brand new deployment that may enable greater than 50 million US households to entry its new 2Gbps service by the top of 2025. In a noticed by , Comcast mentioned it will supply multi-gig web packages in 34 cities throughout the nation earlier than the top of the yr, with preliminary rollouts already underway in Augusta, Colorado Springs, Panama City Beach and Philadelphia.

Even when you don’t join the brand new Gigabit 2x service, you’ll see an enchancment in add speeds. For occasion, in Colorado Springs, Comcast says some tiers supply add speeds as much as 10 occasions quicker than beforehand attainable. The Gigabit 2x plan will initially restrict clients to importing recordsdata at 200Mbps. However, beginning in 2023, multi-gig symmetrical speeds will likely be attainable, because of a expertise referred to as .

Comcast has been transitioning to the usual for the . Once that work is full, it would have the community in place to supply 10Gbps obtain speeds and 6Gbps add speeds on the identical connection. In flip, that may enable it to supply symmetrical speeds throughout a lot of its cable packages. That’s an space the place cable has traditionally lagged in comparison with fiber optic web.