Charter Spectrum Gigabit Speeds Coming Very Soon Charter Spectrum has lagged behind other cable providers in terms of DOCSIS 3.1 gigabit broadband upgrades, but insists that things are about to change. In the wake of the company's recent earnings, Charter unveiled that it would be taking the wraps off of its first wave of gigabit launch markets sometime in the next few months. The launch in initial unnamed markets will only accelerate in 2018, Charter CEO Tom Rutledge recently stated.

"In a couple of months, we’ll launch gigabit speeds offerings in several key markets using DOCSIS 3.1, with more launches planned through 2018," said Rutledge. "We expect DOCSIS 3.1 modems to be priced similarly to DOCSIS 3.0 modems when purchased at scale, and we’ll begin to buy exclusively DOCSIS 3.1 modems and drive higher entry-level speeds." Charter was quick to note that the company now offers speeds of 100 Mbps across more than 75% of its footprint, well up from the 50% coverage the quarter before. That said, the company still lags well behind Charter contemporaries like Comcast in terms of overall DOCSIS 3.1 upgrades, and doesn't plan to follow companies like Comcast and Altice in deploying full fiber to the home -- at least not anytime soon. Users in our Charter forum discovered a since-removed Charter website that also indicates that initial launches are very close, and that Oahu will be one of the initial launch markets. "Spectrum is now offering lightning-fast download speeds of up to 1Gbps to customers in select areas," noted the now-defunct page. "This service is currently available to Spectrum Internet customers in Oahu, with other service areas soon to follow." Expect more details soon as Charter tries to catch up to the rest of the gigabit pack. Expect more details soon as Charter tries to catch up to the rest of the gigabit pack.







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buzz_4_20

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Biddeford, ME 19 recommendations buzz_4_20 Member And... Probably still 5 megabits upload. kherr

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Collinsville, IL 15 recommendations kherr Premium Member When Pigs Fly ...... .... believe it IF you see it rradina

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Chesterfield, MO 12 recommendations rradina Member Oahu? Nothing against the good folks in Hawaii but did Rutledge's $98.5M salary allow him to purchase a phat new crib that had slow Internet?

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6 recommendations Packeteers Premium Member marketing will destroy 1g



meanwhile the only new charter marketing has been their $30 each "play" which everyone knows is just a bogus way to pitch a $90 plus truckload of extra fees and taxes - plan.



if charter does not become significantly more honest with prospective customers about it's offering up front and in full,

nobody will trust 1gig ads to be true either, and will just ignore the offer once it arrives. once bitten, twice as shy as dslr regulars know, when charter took over twcable, they not only removed most speed tiers in favor of 50(100) or 3(ELP) but made getting 300 a $200 punitive fee nightmare.meanwhile the only new charter marketing has been their $30 each "play" which everyone knows is just a bogus way to pitch a $90 plus truckload of extra fees and taxes - plan.if charter does not become significantly more honest with prospective customers about it's offering up front and in full,nobody will trust 1gig ads to be true either, and will just ignore the offer once it arrives. once bitten, twice as shy dot854jc

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Cleveland, TN 5 recommendations dot854jc Member Fiber is better not just in speeds I know they are trying to compete with Fiber but really they are still not comparable. Not only do speeds have to increase but latency has to go down. Does anyone know if there is latency improvement with DOCSIS 3.1?

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@sbcglobal.net 2 recommendations Anon96e0c Anon A little skeptical that they'll deploy it widely at a quick pace: 35% of L-TWC and 60% of L-BH still need conversion to digital. I'd assume that gets completed before any significant gigabit launches...