Comcast will enhance web speeds in Northeast states

For the second time this yr, Comcast will enhance web speeds on its hottest Xfinity buyer plans, the cable large introduced Monday.

Comcast is going through continued aggressive stress from rivals, resembling AT&T, Verizon, and Google Fiber, to extend speeds. This summer season, Comcast introduced that it had misplaced residential broadband clients for the primary time ever.

There will probably be no added expenses for patrons, the corporate mentioned. Comcast introduced comparable pace will increase in March with no hikes in billing.

The brand new pace boosts will probably be rolled out within the coming weeks in Northeastern states from Maine by Virginia and the District of Columbia, Comcast mentioned.

The will increase will probably be utilized to the next Xfinity tiers:

For “Efficiency Starter,” obtain speeds will go from 50 to 75 megabits-per-second (mbps). For the sooner will increase this yr, obtain pace for this tier weren’t elevated, however add speeds had been.

“Efficiency” will double from 100 to 200 mbps. Solely add speeds had been elevated earlier this yr.

“Efficiency Professional” will go from 300 to 400 mbps. The obtain speeds beforehand this yr had been elevated from 200 to 300 mbps.

“Blast!” will go from 600 to 800 mbps for downloads. It beforehand was elevated from 400 to 600.

“Excessive Professional” will probably be bumped from 900 mbps to 1 gigabits-per-second (gbps). It had been boosted from 800 to 900 mbps earlier this yr.

And Comcast mentioned its new Gigabit x2 tier will hit 2 gbps in choose markets, the corporate mentioned.

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