Comcast, doing limited testing of prepaid broadband, detailed standalone ISP service...
Comcast, doing limited testing of prepaid broadband, detailed standalone ISP service products as part of complying with an FCC order allowing it to buy control in 2011 of NBCUniversal. The filing posted Friday to docket 10-56 (http://bit.ly/XOPo6J) came a day…
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after the cable operator reported to the agency on steps it’s taking to sell NBCUniversal’s content to online video distributors (CD March 4 p12). And this Tuesday, the company said separately that Executive Vice President David Cohen will discuss at 11 a.m. with reporters Comcast’s Internet Essentials $9.95-month product for poor households to get broadband, and the so-called digital divide. Speeds for some Comcast standalone products, meanwhile, as of Feb. 1 had risen at a quicker rate than their prices, versus their listings in the cable ISP’s 2012 disclosure filing (http://bit.ly/Z3aw9o). In the Washington market, the monthly cost for the Blast service rose 11 percent to $61.95, while the downstream speed doubled to 50 Mbps and upstream more than doubled to 10 Mbps. A 6 Mbps downstream service continues to cost $49.95 monthly, the filings show. Other standalone Internet access products are sold “at reasonable market-based prices, with speeds that correspond to those offered in its retail multi-product offerings in the relevant service area,” the newer filing said. It said Comcast’s “limited” test of a prepaid product in the Philadelphia market has speeds of 3 Mbps/768 kbps and can be bought in 7- or 30-day increments.