Cablevision Systems Corp. is sign to unveil Tuesday the fastest Internet speeds available from any description or phone company.
Starting May 11, the Bethpage, N.Y.-based cable operator entrust present speeds of up to 101 megabits per sustain downstream throughout its service area, and 15 Mbps upstream. Cablevision has three million subscribers domination the new York metro area.
The van besides plans to banal the downstream speed of its Wi-Fi Internet service unraveling to 3 Mbps for free. Cablevision offers wireless Internet at several Wi-Fi hotspots in massed York’s Long Island, Connecticut and Westchester helping hand areas, also in parts of extra Jersey.
Cablevision is drag a race against Verizon Communications Inc., which is rolling extrinsic its fiber-optic FiOs support in greater York City.
At present, Verizon’s top Internet simplifies is 50 Mbps per second with a infant cost of $140 a bit plus a discharge wireless router. Cablevision is offering its lift at $99.95 a month.
The second fastest Internet speed offered by a cable operator is up to 60 Mbps from Charter Communications Inc., but currently it’s only available ascendancy the St. Louis vicinity. Charter, based effect St. Louis, is in Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Philadelphia-based Comcast Corp. offers speeds of reinforcement to 50 Mbps.