- Spectrum launched its gigabit-speed internet service today in all of its Northern Kentucky franchises.
- The service, dubbed Spectrum Business Internet Gig, is capable of providing speeds up to 1 gigabit per second.
Spectrum, a telecommunications brand owned by St. Louis-based Charter Communications Inc., launched its gigabit-speed internet service today in all of its Northern Kentucky franchises. The service, dubbed Spectrum Business Internet Gig, is capable of providing speeds up to 1 gigabit per second.
The offer is exclusive to businesses.
For years, Cincinnati Bell was the only company to offer gigabit speeds in the Cincinnati metro area. The region’s dominant telephone provider announced its gigabit rollout in March 2014 and began making it available to small businesses five months later.
But since last year, the Queen City has been in the crosshairs of the nation’s fifth-largest telephone provider by residential subscribers. It was one of eight major cities – the others are Austin, Texas; Charlotte, N.C.; Honolulu; Kansas City, Mo.; New York; Raleigh-Durham, N.C., and San Antonio – slated to receive gigabit-tier speeds per a December 2017 announcement.
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Now, Spectrum’s gigabit service has been deployed in more than 30 markets spanning more than half of the company’s service area. Charter will continue to expand the service and expects it to be available in nearly all Spectrum markets by the end of 2018.
That’s a big move for Spectrum, which in May announced that it would invest more than $1 billion in fiber infrastructure for the second consecutive year. The investment will mostly expand client access to the company’s existing fiber network dubbed Spectrum Enterprise.
Cincinnati Bell sold its wireless assets to Verizon Wireless in October 2014 to focus more heavily on its fiber network and other enterprise services. In a statement to the Courier, representatives of Cincinnati Bell said the company continues to build and expand its fiber network.
“Cincinnati Bell invested $17 million into Fioptics in the first quarter of 2018, passing 8,600 new addresses,” the company said in a statement to the Courier. “We are continuing to invest in our fiber network.”
Since 2010, Cincinnati Bell claims to have invested $1 billion in its fiber network. Its public Wi-Fi hotspots include Fountain Square, the Banks, Riverbend, Washington Park and the cities of Newport, Covington and Fairborn.
“We continue to build these public Wi-Fi networks as part of a commitment to connect our neighbors with education and jobs, and to drive economic development opportunities in the region we’ve served for 145 years,” the company said.
Cincinnati Bell is also conducting field tests with speeds reaching up to 10 gigabits, senior communications and media relations manager Josh Pichler told me.
A modem, custom domain and email addresses, cloud backup services, desktop security suite and customer Wi-Fi for businesses with public seating are included in the base cost of roughly $250 per month for Spectrum Business Internet Gig subscribers.
Charter Communications, Inc. is the second-largest cable operator, the third-largest pay television service and the fifth-largest internet provider in the United States. Under the Spectrum brand, the company provides telecommunications services to more than 25 million consumers across 41 states.
Cincinnati Bell is the dominant telephone company for Cincinnati, Dayton and surrounding suburbs in Southwest Ohio. It became the first telecommunications company in the region to offer gigabit-speed internet services under its Fioptics brand in 2014, and currently offers gigabit speeds to approximately 50 percent of Greater Cincinnati addresses, according to company representatives.
Date: July 4, 2018
Source: CINCINNATI Business Courier