Charter Communications announced Wednesday that 1 Gbps internet services are now available to 14 million additional homes in hundreds of U.S. communities, including the cities of Los Angeles, Dallas and Milwaukee.
Charter’s DOCSIS 3.1 deployments now pass about 23 million homes, and the operator intends to expand its Spectrum Internet Gig service to most of its 41-state footprint by the end of the year.
The company first launched its residential 1-gig service in December of 2017 on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, and by the end of the year had expanded to seven additional markets.
New customers can sign on for 1 Gbps service for just under $105 per month, with no data caps or contracts.
Where Charter has rolled out DOCSIS 3.1 it has also been doubling minimum internet speeds to 200 Mbps at no extra cost to new and existing Spectrum customers.
Comcast, meanwhile, began launching DOCSIS 3.1 and 1 Gbps services in mid-2017 and has already deployed the technology across 90 percent of its footprint. However during Comcast’s first-quarter earnings call earlier this week, CEO Brian Roberts declined to reveal how many customers have actually signed up for the gigabit service tier.
“Spectrum’s state-of-the-art, fiber-rich network allows us to deploy dramatically faster broadband speeds, including gigabit connections, broadly and rapidly,” said Charter CEO Tom Rutledge in a statement. “As consumer demands for bandwidth and capacity grow, our world-class network is best-positioned to meet these demands, today and into the future.”
