Waterloo, Iowa - Mediacom is preparing to give local customers the
speediest Internet service in the nation.
Company officials have chosen Waterloo to launch a new residential broadband product providing download speeds of 105 megabytes per second.
"That will make it the fastest Internet service in North America," said Lee Grassley, Mediacom's senior manager of government relations. "We want to use Waterloo as a showcase for this." The "Ultra 105" package is expected to be available for residential customers by the end of December, with a similar business service launched within six months.
Mediacom's current home broadband service, allowing downloads at 20 Mbps and uploads at 2 Mbps, will still be available. The company is using new
DOCSIS 3.0 technology to launch the 105 Mbps down and 10 Mbps upload package, and a 50-by-5 Mbps product will also be available.