According to the Pioneer Press, Comcast will today announce big broadband service in the Twin Cities. With the new service, subscribers will be able to download at speeds of up to 50 megabits per second and upload at speeds of 5 megabits per second. The cost will be $150 a month for residential users and $200 a month for businesses, which includes support for business e-mail and Web hosting. (I didn’t see any info on the new service on the Comcast site – yet.)

I am very interested to see how popular the service is. They claim to be targeting online gamers. I think the businesses might be the most likely audience. I will look forward to trying out the service once I get home. I wish I could get it here. I run into bandwidth issues almost daily and while I spend a lot of time online – I don’t hitnk of myself as a super user. I don’t do online gaming and I don’t generally send or receive large files such as online x-rays or CAD files.

The article mentions that Qwest will soon be announcing a new product too.