List of cable internet providers
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[edit] North America
[edit] Canada
Canadian cable operators offer varying levels of service based on different price points, though the actual marketing terms vary. Services offered by the major Canadian providers are included below.
| Service Provider | Basic | Standard | Faster | Fastest |
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| Videotron | 600 kbit/s down, 128 kbit/s up | 7 Mbit/s down, 820 kbit/s up | 10.0 Mbit/s down, 900 kbit/s up (30 Mbit/s down, 1 Mbit/s up available) | 20.0 Mbit/s down, 1.0 Mbit/s up (50 Mbit/s down, 1 Mbit/s up available) |
| Cogeco | 640 kbit/s down, 150 kbit/s up | 10.0 Mbit/s down, 640 kbit/s up | 16.0 Mbit/s down, 1.0 Mbit/s up | N/A |
| Rogers | 1.0 Mbit/s down, 128 kbit/s up | 7.0 Mbit/s down, 512 kbit/s up | 8.0 Mbit/s down, 800 kbit/s up | 18.0 Mbit/s down, 1.0 Mbit/s up |
| Shaw | 256 kbit/s down, 128 kbit/s up | 5.0 Mbit/s down, 512 kbit/s up | 10.0 Mbit/s down, 1.0 Mbit/s up | 25.0 Mbit/s down, 1.0 Mbit/s up |
| EastLink | 256 kbit/s down, 128 kbit/s up | 5.0 Mbit/s down, 1.0 Mbit/s up | 15.0 Mbit/s down, 1.0 Mbit/s up | 25.0 Mbit/s down, 1.0 Mbit/s up |
[edit] United States
| Service Provider | Basic | Standard | Faster | Fastest | Notes |
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| Comcast | 4 Mbit/s down, 384 kbit/s up | 6 Mbit/s down, 384 kbit/s up (16 Mbit/s down, 384 kbit/s up available) | 8 Mbit/s down, 768 kbit/s up (24 Mbit/s down, 768 kbit/s up available) | 12 or 16 Mbit/s down, 2 Mbit/s up | Will upgrade to DOCSIS 3.0 in order to boost speeds "up to 160 megabits of data per second." [1] |
| Cox Communications | 7 Mbit/s down, 512 kbit/s up (10 Mbit/s down, 2 Mbit/s up available in select markets) | 15 Mbit/s down, 1 Mbit/s up (20 Mbit/s down, 2 Mbit/s up available in select markets) | Blocks incoming ports 25 and 80. | ||
| Cable One | 3 Mbit/s down, 300 kbit/s up | 5 Mbit/s down, 500 kbit/s up | 8 Mbit/s down, 500 kbit/s up | 8 Mbit/s down, 1 Mbit/s up | |
| Charter Communications | 5 Mbit/s down, 512k Mbit/s up | 10 Mbit/s down, 1 Mbit/s up | 16 Mbit/s down, 2 Mbit/s up | Blocks no incoming ports. | |
| Mediacom | 3 Mbit/s down, 256 kbit/s up | 8 Mbit/s down, 512 kbit/s up | 10 Mbit/s down, 1 Mbit/s up | 20 Mbit/s down, 2 Mbit/s up | 10 Mbit/s down, 1 Mbit/s up is available to subscribers of both other Mediacom services, cable television & VoIP[2] |
| Verizon FiOS | 5 Mbit/s down, 2 Mbit/s up | 15 Mbit/s down, 2 Mbit/s up | 20 Mbit/s down, 5 Mbit/s up | 50 Mbit/s down, 5 Mbit/s up (20 Mbit/s upload available in select markets) | Verizon offers higher speeds in some highly-competitive areas. |
| AT&T U-Verse | 1.5 Mbit/s down, 1 Mbit/s up | 3 Mbit/s down, 1 Mbit/s up | 6 Mbit/s down, 1 Mbit/s up | 10 Mbit/s down, 1.5 Mbit/s up | |
| WOW! | 768 kbit/s down, 256 kbit/s up | 2 Mbit/s down, 384 kbit/s up | 4 Mbit/s down, 512 kbit/s up | 6 Mbit/s down, 512 kbit/s up (1 Mbit/s upload available) |
- Cablevision, serving parts of New Jersey, Brooklyn, The Bronx, Long Island, Westchester, Rockland, and Connecticut, also faces competition from FiOS and currently offers the fastest 'basic' cable internet service (Optimum Online) in the US, with 15 Mbit/s Downstream and 2 Mbit/s upstream. A premium package offering 30 Mbit/s downstream and 5 Mbit/s upstream is also available.
- Time Warner Cable, through its regular Road Runner cable internet service speeds vary depending upon region. Some areas offering 8 Mbit/s[specify] downstream and 512 kbit/s upstream, while others are at 5 Mbit/s downstream and 384 kbit/s upstream. Areas such as Albany and San Diego now have speeds of 10 Mbit/s downstream and 1 Mbit/s upstream. Its Road Runner Premium service also varies, with offers of speeds from 10 Mbit/s (in the NYC Region & Central Texas) to 8 Mbit/s downstream, and up to 1 Mbit/s (in Central Texas) to 512 kbit/s upstream. [3] [4] [5]
- Midcontinent Communications, serving South Dakota and parts of North Dakota, Minnesota, and Nebraska, offers three grades of service through its MidcoNet cable internet service: Limited Internet service at 128 kbit/s upload and download; Standard service with 8 Mbit/s download and 256 kbit/s upload; and MidcoNet Max with unthrottled download speed (around the DOCSIS limit of 40 Mbit/s) and 768 kbit/s upload.
[edit] Europe
- The operator Liberty Global Europe (http://lgi.com/) (formerly UGC Europe, locally known as UPC/GET(In Norway)) is in Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, France, Hungary, the Republic of Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland and Slovakia offers the service chello in ranges up to 36 Mbit/s downstream and 18 Mbit/s upstream.
[edit] Belgium
In Belgium Telenet provides up to 20 MBit/s
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Internet Service Downstream Upstream Bandwidth Included Price BasicNet 1000 kbit 128 kbit 400 megabyte 20,00 EUR + 1,21 EUR/GB over limit ComfortNet 4000 kbit 256 kbit 1 Gigabyte 30,64 EUR + 1,21 EUR/GB over limit ExpressNet 10000 kbit 256/512 kbit 12 Gigabyte 42,91 EUR + 1,21 EUR/GB over limit TurboNet 20000 kbit 512/1024 kbit 35 Gigabyte 61,32 EUR + 1,21 EUR/GB over limit
Telenet recently bought UPC Belgium (Cable deliverer in Brussels and Leuven). Telenet holds a monopoly on the Flemish cable network, thats why prices are high and included bandwidth is low. Telenet plans to use DOCSIS 3.0 as their new standards, they will use the bandwidth to support their High Definition transmissions. Mach3 is the name of this new standard, planned roll out in late 2008. Telenet and Belgacom (ADSL provider and host of the Belgium ADSL-network) hold a duopoly in Flanders. Telenet does not resell their network, they don't allow competitors.
[edit] Croatia
In Croatia, B.net provides up to 16 Mbit/s downstream and 1 Mbit/s upstream since November 2007. It offers the following unlimited packets:
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Internet Plan Downstream Upstream Mistral Light 512 kbit 128 kbit Mistral 1536 kbit 384 kbit Scirocco 3072 kbit 512 kbit Bora 6144 kbit 768 kbit Typhoon 16384 kbit 1024 kbit
[edit] Finland
In Finland, there are three main ISP's for cable internet being Welho, Elisa and Sonera and several smaller local ones. These three largest have told of upgrades to DOCSIS 3.0 speeds as early as by the end of 2007. At least Elisa already offers 10/1M and 30/1M speeds requiring an 3.0 version modem, and providing Netgear CM232 to upgrading customers.
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Internet Service Downstream Upstream Bandwidth Included Price extra notes Sonera Laajakaista Extra 100/5 100.000 kbit 5.000 kbit Unlimited No country-wide pricing EuroDOCSIS v3.0 modem required, 2008Q1 Sonera Laajakaista Extra 24/2 24.000 kbit 2.000 kbit Unlimited N/A EuroDOCSIS v2.0 modem required, 2008Q1 Welho 10M 10.000 kbit 1.000 kbit Unlimited 45,00 EUR EuroDOCSISv1.1 modem included Welho 4M 4.000 kbit 1.000 kbit Unlimited 36,00 EUR EuroDOCSIS v1.1 modem included Welho 1M 1.000 kbit 512 kbit Unlimited 25,00 EUR EuroDOCSIS v1.1 modem included Welho 275 275 kbit 100 kbit Unlimited 19,90 EUR EuroDOCSIS v1.1 modem included Elisa Laajakaista Heti 30/1 M 30.000 kbit 1.000 kbit Unlimited 39,90 EUR EuroDOCSIS v3.0 modem required Elisa Laajakaista Heti 10M/1M 10.000 kbit 1.000 kbit Unlimited 34,90 EUR EuroDOCSIS v3.0 modem required Elisa Laajakaista Heti 3M/600 kbit/s 3.000 kbit 600 kbit Unlimited 27,90 EUR EuroDOCSIS modem required Elisa Laajakaista Heti 1,2M/600 kbit/s 1.200 kbit 600 kbit Unlimited 21,90 EUR EuroDOCSIS modem required Elisa Laajakaista Heti 600/600 kbit/s 600 kbit 600 kbit Unlimited 17,90 EUR EuroDOCSIS modem required
[edit] Germany
In Germany, Kabel Deutschland provides up to 30 Mbit/s downstream and up to 2 Mbit/s upstream, tests with 100 Mbit/s downstream are currently done in Hamburg, Cablesurf up to 16 Mbit/s, Unitymedia up to 32 Mbit/s, KabelBW up to 25 Mbit/s and primacom up to 10 Mbit/s.
[edit] Ireland
In the Republic of Ireland,The main Cable network provider Chorus-NTL (a UPC company)offer 12Mbit/s Downstream 1Mbit/s up on a DOCSIS cable.
Other major providers inclide:
Digiweb currently provide up to 10 Mbit/s downstream using DOCSIS cable internet over wireless microwave links (one line-of-sight link per contract).
In Dungarvan, Cablesurf provide 20Mb/s downstream, 512Kb/s upstream via their cable tv infrastructure.
[edit] The Netherlands
In The Netherlands UPC Netherlands provides download speeds up to 24 Mbit/s and upload speeds up to 2.5 Mbit/s. UPC and Cisco announced Europe's first deployment of Euro Docsis 3.0, in an existing cablenetwork. They successfully made testspeeds of up to 120 Mbit/s.
[edit] Norway
In Norway Get is testing Euro DOCSIS 3.0 at speeds in excess of 300 Mbit/s. with planned role out for Q4 2007
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Internet Plan Downstream Upstream extra upstream Bandwidth Included Price S 1250 kbit 750 kbit 1500 kbit UNLIMITED 195 NOK M 2500 kbit 750 kbit 1500 kbit UNLIMITED 279 NOK L 5000 kbit 1000 kbit 2000 kbit UNLIMITED 379 NOK XL 10000 kbit 1500 kbit 3000 kbit UNLIMITED 479 NOK Xtreme 26000 kbit 1500 kbit 3000 kbit UNLIMITED 699 NOK
All extra upstream are 49NOK a month.
[edit] Portugal
In Portugal, TV Cabo provides 30 Mbit/s in downstream, and 1 Mbit/s at upstream.
[edit] Russia
Akado (http://www.akado.ru) is a major Cable Internet and TV provider in Moscow and is the largest DOCSIS-based provider in Russia. In 2006, Akado had the smallest market share of Moscow's biggest four Internet providers[citation needed], but reportedly intends to upgrade to DOCSIS 2.0 in 2008[citation needed].
[edit] Serbia
In Serbia, Serbia Broadband provides up to 2 Mbit/s downstream. IKOM offers up to 2 Mbit/s, and Radijus Vektor offers up to 2 Mbit/s downstream and 1 Mbit/s upstream. There are other, smaller broadband ISPs and higher speed ADSL is more commonly used.
[edit] Spain
In Spain, Ono offers 6 Mbit/s (300 kbit/s), 12 Mbit/s (500 kbit/s) and 25 Mbit/s (1 Mbit/s) starting from September 2007:
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Internet Plan Downstream Upstream Bandwidth Included Price 6Mb 6144 kbit 300 kbit Unlimited MB 50 EUR 12Mb 12288 kbit 500 kbit Unlimited MB 60 EUR 25Mb 25600 kbit 1024 kbit Unlimited MB 75 EUR
[edit] Sweden
In Sweden, Com Hem currently provides up to 24 Mbit/s downstream and up to 10 Mbit/s upstream at limited areas.
[edit] Switzerland
In Switzerland cablecom GmbH (http://www.hispeed.ch), the Cable Internet, TV and Telephone provider offers Internet access with 10 Mbit/s downstream and 1 Mbit/s upstream.
[edit] Ukraine
- Volia (http://volia.com), the Cable Internet and TV provider in Kiev, Ukraine offers Internet access with 38 Mbit/s downstream and 256 kbit/s upstream. Volia is currently offering the following plans:
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Internet Plan Downstream Upstream Bandwidth Included Price Month Light 38000 kbit 256 kbit 250 MB 5USD + 2USD cent/MB over limit Cool 38000 kbit 256 kbit 1000 MB 10USD + 1 USD cent/MB over limit Universal 38000 kbit 256 kbit 3000 MB 12,5USD + 0,5 USD cent/MB over limit Veleten 38000 kbit 256 kbit 10000 MB 20USD + 0,2 USD cent/MB over limit Nolimit 38000 kbit 256 kbit 30000 MB 30USD + 0,1 USD cent/MB over limit
- Nadezhda (http://www.netlux.org), the Cable Internet and TV provider in Donetsk, Ukraine offers Internet access with 1 Mbit/s downstream and 1 Mbit/s upstream. Nadegda is currently offering the following plans:
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Internet Plan Downstream Upstream Bandwidth Included Econom 1024 kbit 1024 kbit 0 MB Home 1024 kbit 512 kbit 500 MB Home-Premium 512 kbit 256 kbit Unlimited MB
[edit] United Kingdom
- Virgin Media is the largest Cable Internet provider in the United Kingdom, rebranded from a previous merger between two formerly separate cable companies, NTL and Telewest. Since May 2007, their premium package offers download speeds of up to 20 megabits per second, with upload speeds of 768 kilobits per second.
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Internet Plan Downstream Upstream Size M 2048 kbit 200 kbit Size L 4096 kbit 400 kbit Size XL 20480 kbit 768 kbit
[edit] Asia & Oceania
[edit] Australia
- Telstra offers cable with speed plans of up to 8, 17 and 30 Mb down, and 128, 256 Kb and 1Mb up. Telstra through its ISP BigPond provides these cable internet services, and currently has the largest cable internet network in Australia, covering the main Australian capitals (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide and the Gold Coast).
- Optus through its ISP OptusNet offers one standard speed of up to 20 Mbit down and 128Kb up. These cable incumbents in Australia are ramping up speeds to keep product parity with the more competitive ADSL2+ services.
- Neighbourhood Cable, a rural Australian cable provider, allows users to opt for a shaped plan at a lower cost (with speeds similar to those of ADSL providers) or an "uncapped" service, which promises download speeds of up to 30 Mbit/s and upstream speeds of 2 Mbit/s.
- TransACT provides cable internet in the Australian Capital Territory, specifically Canberra, at affordable prices at with speeds up to 10Mb per second.
[edit] Israel
In Israel, the cables company Hot offers eleven residential cable broadband plans [7]:
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Downstream[dubious ] Upstream[dubious ] Bandwidth Included Price/Month 750 kbit 96 kbit Unlimited 49 ? 1,536 kbit 128 kbit Unlimited 55 ? 1,536 kbit 256 kbit Unlimited 74 ? 1,536 kbit 512 kbit Unlimited 79 ? 2,560 kbit 256 kbit Unlimited 79 ? 3,072 kbit 150 kbit Unlimited 80 ? 3,072 kbit 278 kbit Unlimited 90 ? 5,120 kbit 512 kbit Unlimited 119 ? 6,144 kbit 600 kbit Unlimited 139 ? 7,168 kbit 700 kbit Unlimited 149 ? 10,240 kbit 1,000 kbit Unlimited 259 ?
[edit] New Zealand
In Wellington and Christchurch, New Zealand, operator TelstraClear provides downstream speeds of 10 Mbit/s, 4 Mbit/s and 2 Mbit/s, with all plans including an upstream speed of 2 Mbit/s. A new 25 Mbit/s plan is being released in the coming months.
[edit] Philippines
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ZpDee Internet, the cable internet arm of SkyCable Philippines offers the following speeds at the following rates to Metro Manila subscribers:
- 64 kbit/s downstream at P690/month
- 128 kbit/s downstream at P890/month
- 512 kbit/s downstream at P999/month
- 1 Mbit/s downstream at P1999/month
- 1.5 Mbit/s downstream at P2999/month
In Clark, Pampanga Comclark Network and Technology Corp. offers 2 residential broadband plans.
Comclark also offers 3 Commercial broadband plans.
Offers 4 Businness broadband plans. New Package for Business establishment includes 1st 500 minutes of international calls. For more details visit http://www.comclark.com.
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Internet Plan Speed(up to) BIZ 1200 1024 kbit BIZ 2000 1500 kbit BIZ 3000 w/1 IP 2048 kbit BIZ 4000 w/5 IP 3072 kbit
[edit] Singapore
In Singapore, Starhub offers five residential cable broadband plans:
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Internet Plan Downstream[dubious ] Upstream[dubious ] Bandwidth Included MaxOnline FlexiSurf, By Hour 1,500 kbit 256 kbit UNLIMITED MaxOnline FlexiSurf, By Day 6,000 kbit 256 kbit UNLIMITED MaxOnline Express 8,000 kbit 256 kbit UNLIMITED MaxOnline Premium 12,000 kbit 384 kbit UNLIMITED MaxOnline Ultimate 100,000 kbit 2,000 kbit UNLIMITED
Note: DOCSIS 3.0 modems (eg. Motorola SB6100) are needed to achieve speeds up to 100,000 kbit/s. MaxOnline Ultimate users with DOCSIS 2.0 modems (eg. Motorola SB5101) would be limited to 32,000 kbit/s.
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