Portland First to Launch Comcast High-Speed 2goTM
with Atlanta, Chicago, Philadelphia and More Launching Before Year-End
2009
Comcast Corporation (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK), the nation’s leading
provider of entertainment, information, and communications products and
services, launches its anticipated high-speed wireless data service
tomorrow in Portland as the company kicks off its nationwide rollout of
Comcast High-Speed 2goTM.
Comcast’s High-Speed 2go is a fourth-generation or 4G wireless
high-speed data service that provides the fastest available wireless
Internet in the nation via wireless data cards. Comcast will be selling
this wireless service bundled with one or more of its popular Internet,
phone and television products, providing mobile broadband where ever and
whenever customers need to be connected.
“With Comcast’s wideband Internet, we already offer one of the fastest
wired connections available today. Now with the launch of High-Speed
2go, we also deliver the nation’s fastest wireless Internet,” said Cathy
Avgiris, senior vice president and general manager for wireless and
voice services at Comcast. “Innovation through mobility is one of many
advances Comcast is providing consumers in the area of entertainment,
information and communications. Comcast High-Speed 2go now gives
consumers the best of both worlds, the fastest fast at home and on the
go. In today’s world, consumers don’t want to be disconnected for even a
minute and now Comcast provides wired and wireless access – a
combination consumers won’t want to live without.”
Comcast is selling two different data cards and service plans:
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Comcast High-Speed 2go Metro service uses a 4G-only data card
giving customers the fastest wireless service within the 4G metro
coverage area. The Metro device operates only in a 4G service
footprint.
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Comcast High-Speed 2go Nationwide service delivers the fastest
metro 4G service plus coast-to-coast access on Sprint’s national 3G
network. The Nationwide device automatically switches between
available 4G and 3G networks.
The world-class services Comcast is known for in the home are beginning
to be extended to where consumers work, live and play. High-speed mobile
Internet is one of the first products consumers want as a natural
extension of Comcast’s super fast wired high-speed Internet.