Mediacom has begun rolling out 1 gigabit internet speeds in its Illinois service territory to offer residents and small businesses in more than 275 small cities and towns in that state access the service. This announcement comes on the heels of Mediacom 1 Gbps rollouts in Georgia and Minnesota last month. Mediacom reports it has launched gigabit services in more than 800 communities across its entire footprint.
“Since 1996, Mediacom has invested over $8 billion of private capital to acquire, upgrade, and expand our national broadband network so that hardworking families throughout the smaller markets we serve receive the same advanced communications services as America’s largest cities,” Todd Curtis, group VP for Mediacom’s Lincoln Region, says. “As a result of these investments, Mediacom will be able to offer 1 Gig services to over 400,000 Illinois households and position hundreds of rural communities across the Land of Lincoln at the forefront of America’s transition into the gigabit era.”
Mediacom was the first major U.S. cable company to fully transition to the DOCSIS 3.1 “Gigasphere” platform, and it says it will use that technology to bring gigabit services to virtually all of the 3 million homes and businesses within its 22-state footprint. The operator also reports that as DOCSIS 3.1 cable modems become more readily available in the marketplace, it will continue to roll out more 1 Gbps services through the remainder of the year, including 70 additional Illinois communities in the next two months.
