Charter Spectrum Ups its Game With Spectrum Internet Gig

Charter Communications launches Spectrum Internet Gig in seven additional markets, featuring the deployment of DOCSIS 3.1 internet services delivering a 1 Gbps connection to the customer’s home. What's more, Charter is also doubling the minimum internet speed in these markets to 200 Mbps at no extra cost to all Charter Spectrum Internet customers.

Charter is fully committed to bringing faster internet speeds to the communities it serves with no contracts or data caps. Spectrum Internet Gig is now available to more than 8.8 million consumers across the San Antonio and Austin, Texas; New York City; Raleigh-Durham and Charlotte, North Carolina; Cincinnati; Honolulu, Hawaii: and Kansas City Missouri markets, and will launch in additional Spectrum communities next year.

“Charter’s state-of-the-art, fiber-rich network is superior in its ability to deliver fast and reliable internet to millions of consumers across the country,” said Charter CEO, Tom Rutledge. “As technology continues to evolve, the products and services of tomorrow will increasingly rely on faster broadband connections. Charter’s world-class network is best-positioned to deliver the bandwidth and capacity needed to meet these growing demands.”

With Spectrum Internet Gig, customers have access to faster and more powerful internet speeds to stream video, play online games, download music and more across multiple devices without sacrificing performance.

Charter's Spectrum Internet Gig is offered with no data caps or contracts, includes a modem and free in-home WiFi, and is backed by a 30-day money back guarantee.

About Charter Spectrum

Charter Spectrum is a suite of advanced broadband services offered by Charter Communications Inc., a leading broadband communications company and the second largest cable operator in the United States. Charter Spectrum provides bundles of services, including Spectrum TV™, Spectrum Internet™ access, and Spectrum Voice™. Spectrum Business® similarly provides scalable, tailored, and cost-effective broadband communications solutions to business organizations, such as business-to-business Internet access, data networking, business telephone, video and music entertainment services.

Charter unsure if net neutrality helps or hinders

Cable TV, Internet and Voice provider Charter Communications is like most of the other big Internet Service Providers in that they like the idea of Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai’s plan to do away with the net neutrality rules. The rules were enacted back in 2015 by what they are calling Obama’s Federal Communications Commission.

After Donald Trump became President, he appointed Ajit Pai to the position of FCC Chairman. Ajit Pai promised to get rid of the net neutrality rules which he seems to be doing despite the American public and the Democrats in the Senate wanting to keep them. By the way, Ajit Pai used to work for a little old Internet Service Provider called Verizon.

Pai and the Cable and Internet Service Providers like Charter maintain that the rules hinder investment even though investment has never been higher and Charter CEO Tom Rutledge himself even said “Title II, it didn't really hurt us; it hasn't hurt us," to an investors group last year.

Despite saying that the rules made it harder to invest, Charter just happened to buy Time Warner Cable AND the Bright House Networks while the rules were in effect. Now Charter provides Internet, cable TV and voice service to all of Time Warner and Bright House areas. Oh, and also Tom Rutledge made almost $100 million last year. Yeah, the whole net neutrality thing must be rough on poor Tom.