Sunflower Broadband Offers 50 Mbps For $70 Albeit with 120 GB cap and 1 Mbps upstream
(from the "i'm greedy and do not want to care about lack of competition department") http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Sunflower-Broadband-Offers-50-Mbps-For-70-104919 Lawrence, Kansas based Sunflower Broadband (see our user reviews) has announced that it will be upgrading its infrastructure to DOCSIS 3.0 in the near future. The company, often criticized for being among the earliest U.S. cable operators to employ rather low caps, will be launching 50 Mbps service soon for $59.95 per month (up from their high-end tier's current price of $49.95), plus $10 per month if you don't get their cable service. Their $5 modem rental covers the new DOCSIS 3.0 modem required, or customers can trade up or buy their own for a price that's slightly below retail for the Motorola SB6120, the most widely available consumer DOCSIS 3 model. The catch? Upload speeds top out at one megabit, and a transfer cap of 120GB applies. Sunflower won't have some of its markets upgraded until early 2010, but those markets are probably getting the best deal of anyone in Sunflower Broadband's footprint: their monthly fee stays at $49.95 (or $59.95 without cable) and their internet speed stays at 21 Mbps down/768 kbps up. However, their cap will be upped to 120GB, just like DOCSIS 3.0 areas are getting. This is up from the company's current 50GB cap (or 70GB, depending on where you look). Sunflower Broadband does offer a tier, Palladium, that's unmetered/uncapped, however the company doesn't guarantee speeds on that tier, merely calling it "optimized for video" and saying that users will get between 2 and 21 Mbps depending on network conditions at the time. The service, which according to the company's site requires a DOCSIS 3.0 modem, is $49.95, the same price as the currently-21Mbps Gold tier is now. *********************************** * POST TO MEDIANEWS@ETSKYWARN.NET * *********************************** Medianews mailing list Medianews@etskywarn.net http://lists.etskywarn.net/mailman/listinfo/medianews
