Cox’s G1GABLAST reaches Arizona, California, Nebraska, and Nevada

Competition is at work here. With more than 2 players in these markets, Cox is feeling the heat. This move is good for them and the consumer.

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Lightwave Staff

Cox Communications reports that its residential gigabit Internet service G1GABLAST is now available in Phoenix, Omaha, Las Vegas, and Orange County, CA.

Cox will be battling gigabit competition in Phoenix from CenturyLink and potentially Google Fiber, and from CenturyLink in Omaha and Las Vegas.

We started in Phoenix last fall, but we have not stopped there. We’re adding new building projects every month,” notes Cox President Pat Esser at INTX 2015, the National Cable & Telecommunications Association’s Internet and Television Expo in Chicago.

The company reports it’s also deploying new broadband access network infrastructure in Arkansas, Louisiana, Rhode Island, Oklahoma, and Virginia to bring G1GABLAST to these markets later this summer. Cox’s residential gigabit service is expected to be available in all of its markets by the end of 2016 (see “Cox outlines gigabit broadband plans”).

In a video interview shot this week at INTX in Chicago with Lightwave‘s sister site, Broadband Technology Report, Cox CTO Kevin Hart told BTR Managing Editor Ron Hendrickson that Cox is using RF over glass (RFoG) fiber to the home (FTTH) technology in at least some of these roll outs. (The video is currently being edited and is not yet available for viewing.)

In 2014, the company says it doubled the speeds of its High Speed Internet Preferred and High Speed Internet Premier packages. Earlier this year, its High Speed Internet Essential and High Speed Internet Starter were increased, and the company plans to increase its High Speed Internet Ultimate package later this year.

For more information on FTTx equipment and suppliers, visit the Lightwave Buyer’s Guide.

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About Mark Milliman

Mark Milliman is a Principal Consultant at Inphotonics Research driving the adoption and assisting local governments to plan, build, operate, and lease access open-access municipal broadband networks. Additionally, he works with entrepreneurs and venture capitalists to increase the value of their intellectual capital through the creation of strategic product plans and execution of innovative marketing strategies. With more than 22 years of experience in the telecommunications industry that began at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Mark has built fiber, cable, and wireless networks around the world to deliver voice, video, and data services. His thorough knowledge of all aspects of service delivery from content creation to the design, operation, and management of the network is utilized by carriers and equipment manufacturers. Mark conceived and developed one of the industry's first multi-service provisioning platform and is multiple patent holder. He is active in the IEEE as a senior member. Mark received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Iowa State University and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.
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