GNG News Guy
04-29-2008, 07:01 PM
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Charter has been testing a 16Mbps/2Mbps tier in Texas since last year. While the company was shy about discussing it with us publicly, Charter phone techs spent much of the last year telling our users that the faster speed would be arriving any day now. Charter's new 16Mbps/2Mbps tier finally dropped in central Nebraska, portions of Missouri, and in Madison, Wisconsin last month. Charter's public relations team is only a few months behind reality, for the first time ever today issuing a press release (http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/080428/20080428006274.html?.v=1) acknowledging the tier's availability (but only in Wisconsin).
User discussion in our Charter forum (http://www.thegng.org/forum/r19735294-16MB-2-MB-WHERE-IS-IT~start=280#end) indicates customers are paying drastically different prices depending on the competitiveness of their market; from $55 (non-promotional, no less) to $80.
Others say they're being offered 10Mbps for $35 for twelve months if they threaten to cancel. Some Madison-area customers say the 16Mbps tier is being offered there for $69.99 bundled, $79.99 standalone.
Charter has been testing a 16Mbps/2Mbps tier in Texas since last year. While the company was shy about discussing it with us publicly, Charter phone techs spent much of the last year telling our users that the faster speed would be arriving any day now. Charter's new 16Mbps/2Mbps tier finally dropped in central Nebraska, portions of Missouri, and in Madison, Wisconsin last month. Charter's public relations team is only a few months behind reality, for the first time ever today issuing a press release (http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/080428/20080428006274.html?.v=1) acknowledging the tier's availability (but only in Wisconsin).
User discussion in our Charter forum (http://www.thegng.org/forum/r19735294-16MB-2-MB-WHERE-IS-IT~start=280#end) indicates customers are paying drastically different prices depending on the competitiveness of their market; from $55 (non-promotional, no less) to $80.
Others say they're being offered 10Mbps for $35 for twelve months if they threaten to cancel. Some Madison-area customers say the 16Mbps tier is being offered there for $69.99 bundled, $79.99 standalone.