Cable ONE says it has eliminated fixed usage caps for its high speed Internet access plans, and instead suggests that its plans assume a 300 GB maximum on monthly usage on its 50 Mbps plans. The 50 Mbps plan sells for $50 a month (before the taxes and fees) when bundled with voice service.
Cable ONE also is launching new 60 Mbps and 70 Mbps plans, though pricing was not immediately made public.
One might conclude that the dropping of the usage cap and the expansion of speeds is, at least indirectly, a response to Google Fiber. In 2010, for example, 50 Mbps service in the U.S. market cost about $145 a month, or nearly $3 per Mbps of access speed.
The latest Cable ONE offer pegs bandwidth at $1 for each Mbps of access speed, when access service is bundled with a voice plan.
Verizon FiOS likewise now is available, on a promotional basis, for about $1.20 per Mbps of speed for about a year, on contract, with second-year prices of about $1.60 per Mbps of speed.
Monday, June 3, 2013
50 Mbps Services Dropping to About $1 to $1.60 Per Mbps Per Month?
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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