{"id":7924,"date":"2009-04-28T08:52:57","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T08:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/broadband_at_one_dollar_per_mbps.html"},"modified":"2009-04-28T08:52:57","modified_gmt":"2009-04-28T08:52:57","slug":"broadband-at-one-dollar-per-mbps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/broadband-at-one-dollar-per-mbps.html","title":{"rendered":"Broadband at One Dollar per Mbps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cablevision has released its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/usubmit\/2009\/04\/28\/4152995.htm\">100 Mbps<\/a> service in Long Island, NY termed Optimum Online Ultra. 100 Mbps is the download speed while upload speed is rated at 15 Mbps. While I agree with <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2009\/04\/27\/in-long-island-100-mbps-broadband-arrives\/\">Om Malik<\/a> that Cablevision is doing things differently than many other cable companies who are effectively fighting with customers by implementing broadband caps&#8230; A little known secret about Cablevision broadband is heavy users are effectively restricted to a penalty box which drastically reduces their upload and download speed until they upgrade their service level or call and have the service reset.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I consider the company&#8217;s broadband service to be among the best values in broadband access in the country and have nothing but praise for a company that not only provides broadband at $1\/Mbps but throws in <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wireless\/interviewed-by-businessweek-about-cablevision-optimum-wifi.html\">free WiFi<\/a> to boot.<\/p>\n<p><i>Be sure to check out TMC&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/cable.tmcnet.com\/\">Cable Technology<\/a> site for more news on the cable market.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cablevision has released its 100 Mbps service in Long Island, NY termed Optimum Online Ultra. 100 Mbps is the download speed while upload speed is rated at 15 Mbps. While I agree with Om Malik that Cablevision is doing things differently than many other cable companies who are effectively fighting with customers by implementing broadband<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168,171,160,199,218,1679,189,118,174,191,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7924"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}