Two Texas Towns Getting CableOne Gigabit Service

The residents of Aransas Pass and Port Lavaca in Texas now live in a "Gigabit city" with Cable ONE's recent launch of their new Gigabit service GigaONE by Cable ONE.   

Cable ONE's Aransas Pass office will be having a GigaONE launch party on Friday, May 11 to celebrate. The party will have free pizza and refreshments. There will also be prizes like an iPad, an XBOX ONE, and an Apple TV.

"GigaONE will support the technology needs of the communities we serve, now and in the future," said Cable ONE's Director of Residential Marketing, Varn Chavez. "We are excited to be able to offer Gigabit service to nearly 1.5 million homes in the markets we serve."

More than $770 million has been invested over the past five years by Cable ONE on network upgrades and other improvements to bring the latest technology and faster speeds to CableONE customers in Texas and elsewhere.

In many markets, Cable ONE offers cable, Internet and phones, and they are the first cable and Internet provider to offer gigabit service in these areas.

The new Cable ONE Gigabit speeds will allow customers to download:
  
    100 songs in just a few seconds
    An HD movie in a minute or less
    A video game in less than 30 seconds

"Our extensive fiber network deployment and continued investment in improving and expanding our network enables us to offer the fastest, most reliable Internet connections at the best value, while contributing to the economic development of the communities we serve," Chavez said.

Charter Loses Video Subscribers and Ups Its Internet Speed

Charter Communications is the number two cable Internet company in the United States. Recently, overnight, they boosted Internet speeds for many Charter Spectrum high speed Internet customers. That's right, many people woke up with faster Internet.

You can't argue that fast Internet is the way of the future so Charter Communications has increased its Internet speeds across the country. As they further roll out the DOCSIS 3.1, Charter’s Spectrum Internet Gig speeds are being offered to more and more homes. As a result Charter customers are finding that Internet speeds of 1 Gbps are available to almost 23 million homes in the Charter Communications footprint. Places like Dallas, Los Angels and Milwaukee are all getting faster Internet. Before the end of the year Charter Communications plans to roll out Spectrum Internet Gig to pretty much all of the forty-one states in their service area.

Currently, Charter Spectrum Internet Gig is available to about half of all Charter customers but 100 Mbps speed is available to almost 99% of their users.

The company has added over 360,000 Charter high speed Internet customers last quarter. Unfortunately for Charter, their cable video subscriber count dropped by more than 110,000 customers for the first quarter of 2018.

Cable Companies Work Together for More Effective Advertising

Charter Communications, Comcast Cable, and Cox Communications are banding together with their jointly owned NCC Media group to work out how to better advertise to help NCC clients.

The project will launch later this year and be headed up by Comcast Media 360 Vice President Andrew Ward. He will be the general manager. The three cable companies, Comcast, Charter, Cox as well as NCC, will all work together. NCC is a nationwide media sales company that represents video providers.

Andrew Ward has been working with NCC Media for 15 years. He worked for Comcast Spotlight, where he worked on a addressable advertising platform and new data and analytic capabilities.

The NCC Media's board is led by David Kline, Executive Vice President and President of Media Sales at Charter Communications , Billy Farina Cox Communication's Senior Vice President and Marcien Jenckes, the President of Advertising at Comcast Cable.

The Best Site For Finding Cable Internet

Why would you need high-speed Cable Internet in your home or office? Well if you are like most people you use the Internet. You probably use it a lot. So it is likely that having a faster Internet in your house or office would be a big help. Online gaming, shopping, listening to music and streaming videos are just some of the things that would be easier with a faster Internet connection.

Finding the high-speed cable Internet in your zip codeis another thing. It can be a problem. The solution is the site cableinternetbyzip.com. As you probably guessed it can help you find some the the best and fastest high-speed Internet services available in your zip code.

Whether you are looking for a Cox TV and Internet bundle or a Charter Spectrum triple play with TV Phone and Internet you can find it on cableinternetbyzip.com.

If you just want a tool to find out availability for high-speed Internet right away you are in luck.

Can I get Cable Internet without TV?

Getting high-speed cable Internet came after cable television was pretty well established. Cable TV was around for decades before someone had the bright idea to offer Internet through the cable that was already going into people's houses. Telephone companies did the same thing with the phone lines. Both service found that they could provide high speed Internet to their customers without running additional lines into the house.

Of course you can get cable Internet and cable TV in a bundle. You can even get a landline phone added in. Triple play and double play bundles have been the bread and butter of cable companies for quite a few years now.

But many people ask "Can I get cable Internet if I don't have cable TV?" The answer is "Yes! You can get cable Internet if you don't also get cable TV." There is one drawback, often there is an extra charge if you don't get a bundle with Internet and cable television together. Even with the extra charge it will be less expensive that getting both services.

Most cable companies are being forced to focus on services other than cable television like cable high-speed Internet  because a trend called cord cutting is slowly taking over. Cord cutting is when cable television customers decide that they no longer need cable TV because they have Netflix or other over the top (OTT) servcies. Many people would rather spend $12 a month on Netflix than $30 to $100 a month for cable TV. Sure you don't get all the network shows on Netflix, but for some, it is worth the sacrifice.

Net Neutrality in New York and Montana

Finding high-speed Internet service in your area

In light of Ajit Pai's repeal of net neutrality, (a very unpopular move) many states are taking the matter into their own hands. So far 22 state legislatures are taking at least some action to improve high speed Internet connections in their states.

The governors of Montana and New York have issued orders that ISPs must adhere to net neutrality rules to get contracts from the states. This means that in order to provide high speed Internet to their location, the ISP must provide Internet service that follows net neutrality guidelines.

The governor of New York even said "Whereas the FCC recently chose to do away with free and open Internet protections in order to satisfy corporate interests that are not aligned with those of New Yorkers." Ouch. I guess Governor Cuomo is serious about getting good high-speed Internet in his state.

We will see what the other states do to try to keep net neutrality in their state. You got to love it when the governor of New York says that local Internet Service Providers in New York "will not block, throttle, or prioritize Internet content or applications or require that end users pay different or higher rates to access specific types of content or applications."

Charter Spectrum Jumping on the Content Bandwagon

Currently Charter Spectrum provides high-speed Internet, Cable TV and phones but now it appears that Charter Communications wants to start producing their own programming. They have hired experienced TV producer Katherine Pope as senior VP and head of original content. Pope used to work for NBCUniversal and Chernin Group. Charter recently announced that they had worked out an arrangement with AMC and Viacom for some original programming.

Charter is the number two cable company and it is looking like they want to compete with number one Comcast in teh original content department. Of course Comcast provides Internet, phones and Cable TV but they already own NBCUniversal so they are miles ahead of Charter as far a production goes. NBCUniversal owns quite a bit of content including Dreamworks, the Weather Channel, USA Network, Bravo and of course NBC.

Another competitor, phone, Internet and video provider AT&T, is looking to buy Time Warner which includes Warner Brother Studios as well as HBO, CNN, Turner Broadcasting and Cartoon Network. AT&T already owns DirecTV.

Charter Spectrum's cable, Internet and phone services expanded greatly in 2015 with the purchase of Bright House Network and Time Warner Cable. Whether they really want to compete with AT&T and Comcast or even Disney is any one's guess at this point.