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Comcast Corp. Chief Executive Brian Roberts dazzled a cable industry audience Tuesday, showing off for the first time in public new technology that enabled a data download speed of 150 megabits per second, or roughly 25 times faster than today's standard cable modems.
Here's what I want to know: will they still be limiting the upstream bandwidth to single digits? Recently, Verizon came through our area and installed FIOS. I was interested, until they came by and offered me exactly the same service Comcast does, at exactly the same price. You want me to buy something new? Offer me value somewhere!