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Cox Communications plans to offer 1-gigabit Internet service to all of its residential customers in the Omaha area by mid-2016. The super-fast service is now available only to businesses and select residential areas in the metro area.

A 1-gigabit connection will cost residential customers about $99 a month, said Bruce Berkinshaw, director of product operations for Cox Communications’ central region.

Omaha is one of three metro areas where the company is fast-tracking its 1-gigabit expansion. The other two cities are Phoenix and Las Vegas.

Cox plans to offer the service to all its residential customers in all of its markets nationwide by the end of 2016.

In the next few weeks, Cox will begin advertising the capabilities of 1-gigabit service.

Berkinshaw said that the service is about six times faster than 150-megabits-per-second service, and 100 times faster than the national average of 11 Mbps. It takes about 30 seconds to download a full-length movie with 1 gigabit compared to 40 minutes or more at 11 Mbps.

Early this year, Cox began rolling out 1-gigabit service to residential customers in some apartment complexes and single-family homes in Omaha and Council Bluffs.