Altice-owned Suddenlink is deploying 1 Gigabit services in Louisiana in Alexandria and Pineville. The new services expand the operator’s 1 Gbps offerings in the state that were previously announced in Lake Charles and Sulphur, Bossier City and nearby communities.
The operator is stressing that its strategy for ultra high-speed rollouts goes beyond deploying only in large urban markets, which some other providers have focused on.
“Today’s announcement is the next step in Operation GigaSpeed, the company-wide plan we announced in August of 2014,” Altice USA VP of Suddenlink Operations Robbie Lee says. “In sharp contrast to other large providers, which are offering a Gigabit service primarily to a few neighborhoods in large urban markets, we’re pleased to be making our Suddenlink Gigabit service available in all of the neighborhoods and to all of the households and businesses we serve throughout Alexandria and Pineville.”
Local businesses also will have access to the new Gigabit service, along with Suddenlink customized services the company offers that are capable of multi-Gigabit speeds.
The company also announced that residential high-speed internet customers with current download speeds up to 75 and 100 Megabits per second (Mbps) have been moved to services with download speeds up to 100 and 200 Mbps, respectively, at no added charge. The standard Suddenlink residential internet download speeds in Alexandria and Pineville are now up to 50, 100, and 200 Mbps, along with the new up to 1 Gig service, according to the operator.
