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Comcast Offers $300 A Month Super-Fast Internet: Would You Pay Up for the Service?
All Internet consumers have grumbled from time to time about their Internet connection. The average Internet user pays less than $55 per month for at least 15 megabits per second of data — not the quickest rate available on the market but a decent-enough one to download videos, songs and photos.
But just how much would one pay for lightening speed Internet access?
For those who 'feel the need for speed' (a fitting reference here from "Top Guns") Comcast (CMCSA) will soon debut its Xfinity Platinum Internet service that boasts a 305 megabits per second download speed — arguably one of the fastest in the world. But consumers will have to pay up for the latest technology. Comcast charges $299.95 per month for Xfinity Platinum, nearly a six-fold premium to the national average.
Tuna Amobi, an analyst at S&P Capital IQ, says Comcast's ultra high-speed gamble was designed for a very small segment of the market but more importantly to establish the company's prowess in the increasingly competitive Internet space.
"What we're seeing in the broadband wars is increasingly played out on the speed front so you've got telecoms on the one side and cable industry on the other side," Amobi says in the accompanying video. "This has probably been positioned as a defensive weapon and potentially for bragging rights as well so cable guys can now say we can offer speeds that match or exceed the fiber based broadband. It's important for their marketing efforts."
For rest ---> http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/dail...th-super-fast-internet-pay-154845511.html?l=1
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No, I wouldn't, I'm ok with 15 megabit speed.
All Internet consumers have grumbled from time to time about their Internet connection. The average Internet user pays less than $55 per month for at least 15 megabits per second of data — not the quickest rate available on the market but a decent-enough one to download videos, songs and photos.
But just how much would one pay for lightening speed Internet access?
For those who 'feel the need for speed' (a fitting reference here from "Top Guns") Comcast (CMCSA) will soon debut its Xfinity Platinum Internet service that boasts a 305 megabits per second download speed — arguably one of the fastest in the world. But consumers will have to pay up for the latest technology. Comcast charges $299.95 per month for Xfinity Platinum, nearly a six-fold premium to the national average.
Tuna Amobi, an analyst at S&P Capital IQ, says Comcast's ultra high-speed gamble was designed for a very small segment of the market but more importantly to establish the company's prowess in the increasingly competitive Internet space.
"What we're seeing in the broadband wars is increasingly played out on the speed front so you've got telecoms on the one side and cable industry on the other side," Amobi says in the accompanying video. "This has probably been positioned as a defensive weapon and potentially for bragging rights as well so cable guys can now say we can offer speeds that match or exceed the fiber based broadband. It's important for their marketing efforts."
For rest ---> http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/dail...th-super-fast-internet-pay-154845511.html?l=1
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No, I wouldn't, I'm ok with 15 megabit speed.
