Comcast: Gigabit Pro Will Be The "Fastest" Home Internet Service

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Comcast is responding to a challenge set forth by Google and AT&T in their bids to win the hearts — and wallets — of metro Atlanta customers seeking fast and reliable internet connections.

The company on Thursday announced it will offer a multi-gigabit broadband service to more than 1.5 million residential customers in the metro Atlanta area. The company is expected to roll out the service starting next month, according to its press release.

Comcast describes its Gigabit Pro service as a symmetrical, 2 Gigabit-per-second (Gbps) service that will be delivered using a fiber-to-the-home solution. Service will be offered broadly across the metro area and “will be the fastest residential Internet speed in the country.”

“Our approach is to offer the most comprehensive rollout of multi-gigabit service to the most homes as quickly as possible, not just to certain neighborhoods,” said Doug Guthrie, senior vice president of Comcast Cable’s South Region. “We already provide the fastest speeds to the most homes and businesses in Atlanta, and access to Gigabit Pro will give our customers all the broadband capacity they need to stay ahead of future technologies and innovations.”

Comcast’s announcement comes on the heels of Google Fiber expanding to several metro Atlanta cities and AT&T announcing plans to bring its GigaPower network to Atlanta.

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Gigabit Pro will be available to any home within close proximity of Comcast’s fiber network and will require an installation of professional-grade equipment. The company has fiber at the core of its network and, for the past decade, it has been extending it deeper into neighborhoods and closer to homes.

To date, Comcast has built out more than 145,000 route miles of fiber across its service area.

Comcast has been delivering multi-gig (up to 10 Gbps) Ethernet service to businesses since 2010. The company currently serves more than 1.5 million businesses nationwide.

Comcast has been doubling the capacity of its network at least every 18 months and, with the introduction of Gigabit Pro, the company has now increased speeds for its subscribers 14 times in the past 13 years. In addition to fast, wired broadband tiers, Xfinity Internet customers have access to the industry’s fastest in-home wireless gateway capable of offering up to 700 Mbps Wi-Fi connections.

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