As its summer rollout of gigabit internet speeds continues, Charter Communications announced that the operator’s Spectrum Internet Gig service is now offered in more than two dozen new markets.
The August launches bring DOCSIS 3.1-powered gigabit service to more than 6 million additional homes and businesses in markets that include Tampa-St. Petersburg, Fla.; Buffalo, N.Y.; Columbia and Myrtle Beach, S.C.; Madison, Wis.; The Rio Grande Valley in Texas; and the greater Atlanta and New Orleans regions.
The latest launch follows a June deployment that brought the service to 4 million more customers, and a spring rollout that reached 14 million additional homes and businesses.
Charter said its gigabit internet service is now available to more than 70 percent of the operator’s footprint, and it’s on track to cover its entire 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.
Charter added 218,000 residential internet subscribers during the second quarter, ending the period with 23.1 million residential broadband customers. The company said that more than 60 percent of those customers were subscribing to speed tiers of 100 Mbps or above.
Earlier this month Charter introduced its next generation Spectrum Wi-Fi router supporting 802.11ax technology, touting itself as the first U.S.-based broadband provider to debut the next-gen wireless standard.
The company said the router increases WiFi speeds, enables up to 64 devices to be connected simultaneously and improves battery life for those devices.
“Our new Spectrum Wi-Fi router with 802.11ax is the most advanced wireless router in the world and firmly positions Charter as the leader in advanced wireless solutions,” said Jim Blackley, EVP of Engineering and Information Technology for Charter Communications, in a statement. “With multi-gigabit throughput, 802.11ax unleashes the full potential of Charter’s fiber-rich network, creating a better in-home and entertainment experience and further enabling next generation technologies such as virtual reality, augmented reality, and advanced IoT-enabled applications.”
