List of cable Internet providers

Canada

Canadian cable operators offer varying levels of service based on price, though the actual marketing terms vary. Services offered by the major Canadian providers are included below.

Mexico

United States

• Cablevision, serving parts of New Jersey, Brooklyn, The Bronx, Long Island, Westchester, Rockland, and Connecticut, also faces competition from FiOS and currently offers the fastest 'basic' cable internet service (Optimum Online) in the US, with 15 Mbit/s Downstream and 2 Mbit/s upstream. A premium package offering 30 Mbit/s downstream and 5 Mbit/s upstream is also available.

• Time Warner Cable, through its regular Road Runner cable internet service speeds vary depending upon region. Some areas offering 8 Mbit/s downstream and 512 kbit/s upstream, while others are at 5 Mbit/s downstream and 384 kbit/s upstream. Areas such as Albany and San Diego now have speeds of 10 Mbit/s downstream and 1 Mbit/s upstream. Its Road Runner Premium service also varies, with offers of speeds from 10 Mbit/s (in the NYC Region & Central Texas) to 8 Mbit/s downstream, and up to 1 Mbit/s (in Central Texas) to 512 kbit/s upstream. 6 7 8

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• Midcontinent Communications, serving South Dakota and parts of North Dakota, Minnesota, and Nebraska, offers three grades of service through its MidcoNet cable internet service: Limited Internet service at 256 kbit/s upload and download; Standard service with 10 Mbit/s download and 512 kbit/s upload; and MidcoNet Max with unthrottled download speed (around the DOCSIS limit of 40 Mbit/s) and 768 kbit/s upload. 10

South America

Chile

• In Chile, VTR Globalcom, which is owned by Liberty Global, offers up to 8 Mbit/s downstream and 512 kbit/s upstream, with no bandwidth limit, and 15 Mbit/s downstream and 512 kbit/s upstream with 50 GB bandwidth Limit.

Colombia

• UNE ,which is owned by EPM, offers up to 8 Mbit/s.

Europe

• The operator Liberty Global Europe (http://lgi.com/) (formerly UGC Europe, locally known as UPC/GET(In Norway)) is in Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, France, Hungary, the Republic of Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland and Slovakia offers the service chello in ranges up to 36 Mbit/s downstream and 18 Mbit/s upstream.

Belgium

• Telenet provides up to 20 MBit/s
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|- ! Internet Service!! Downstream !! Upstream !! Bandwidth Included !! Price |- | style="font-weight:bold;"| BasicNet || 1000 kbit || 128 kbit || 400 megabyte || 20,00 EUR + 1,21 EUR/GB over limit |- | style="font-weight:bold;"| ComfortNet || 4000 kbit || 256 kbit || 1 Gigabyte || 30,64 EUR + 1,21 EUR/GB over limit |- | style="font-weight:bold;"| ExpressNet || 15000 kbit || 256/512 kbit || 20 Gigabyte || 42,91 EUR + 1,21 EUR/GB over limit |- | style="font-weight:bold;"| TurboNet || 20000 kbit || 512/1024 kbit || 60 Gigabyte || 61,32 EUR + 1,21 EUR/GB over limit |} In 2007 Telenet bought UPC Belgium (Cable deliverer in Brussels and Leuven). Telenet holds a monopoly on the Flemish cable network, that's why prices are high and included bandwidth is low. Telenet plans to use DOCSIS 3.0 as their new standards, they will use the bandwidth to support their High Definition transmissions. Mach3 is the name of this new standard, planned roll out in begin 2009. Telenet and Belgacom (ADSL provider and host of the Belgium ADSL-network) hold a duopoly in Flanders. Telenet does not resell their network, they don't allow competitors.

Bosnia and Herzegovina

In Zenica (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Telekabel provides up to 4 Mbit/s downstream and 1 Mbit/s upstream since May 2009. It offers the following packets:

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|- ! Packet !! Downstream (Limit) !! Upstream (Limit) |- | style="font-weight:bold;"| TINK MINI || 1024 kbit (1 GB) || 1024 kbit (1 GB) |- | style="font-weight:bold;"| TINK || 2048 kbit (5 GB) || 1024 kbit (5 GB) |- | style="font-weight:bold;"| TINK PLUS || 3072 kbit (7 GB) || 1024 kbit (7 GB) |- | style="font-weight:bold;"| TINK MAX || 4096 kbit (10 GB) || 1024 kbit (10 GB) |- | style="font-weight:bold;"| TINK BUSINESS || 3072 kbit (5 GB) || 1024 kbit (5 GB) |}

Croatia

In Croatia, B.net provides up to 16 Mbit/s downstream and 1 Mbit/s upstream since November 2007. It offers the following unlimited packets:

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|- ! Internet Plan !! Downstream !! Upstream |- | style="font-weight:bold;"| Mistral Light || 512 kbit || 128 kbit |- | style="font-weight:bold;"| Mistral || 1536 kbit || 384 kbit |- | style="font-weight:bold;"| Scirocco || 3072 kbit || 512 kbit |- | style="font-weight:bold;"| Bora || 6144 kbit || 768 kbit |- | style="font-weight:bold;"| Typhoon || 16384 kbit || 1024 kbit |}

Cyprus

In Cyprus, Cablenet 11 provides up to 10 Mbit/s downstream and 1 Mbit/s upstream.

Finland

In Finland, there are three main ISP's for cable internet being Welho, Elisa and Sonera and several smaller local ones. These three largest have told of upgrades to DOCSIS 3.0 speeds as early as by the end of 2007. At least Elisa already offers 10/1M and 30/1M speeds requiring an 3.0 version modem, and providing Netgear CM232 to upgrading customers.

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|- ! Internet Service!! Downstream !! Upstream !! Bandwidth Included !! Price !! extra notes |- | style="font-weight:bold;"| Sonera Laajakaista Extra 100/5 || 100.000 kbit || 5.000 kbit || Unlimited || No country-wide pricing || EuroDOCSIS v3.0 modem required, 2008Q1 |- | style="font-weight:bold;"| Sonera Laajakaista Extra 24/2 || 24.000 kbit || 2.000 kbit || Unlimited || N/A || EuroDOCSIS v2.0 modem required, 2008Q1 |- | style="font-weight:bold;"| Welho 110M || 110.000 kbit || 5.000 kbit || Unlimited || 54,90 EUR || EuroDOCSIS v3 modem required. |- | style="font-weight:bold;"| Welho 10M || 10.000 kbit || 1.000 kbit || Unlimited || 45,00 EUR || EuroDOCSISv1.1 modem included |- | style="font-weight:bold;"| Welho 4M || 4.000 kbit || 1.000 kbit || Unlimited || 36,00 EUR || EuroDOCSIS v1.1 modem included |- | style="font-weight:bold;"| Welho 1M || 1.000 kbit || 512 kbit || Unlimited || 25,00 EUR || EuroDOCSIS v1.1 modem included |- | style="font-weight:bold;"| Welho 275 || 275 kbit || 100 kbit || Unlimited || 19,90 EUR || EuroDOCSIS v1.1 modem included |- | style="font-weight:bold;"| Elisa Laajakaista Heti 30/1 M || 30.000 kbit || 1.000 kbit || Unlimited || 39,90 EUR || EuroDOCSIS v3.0 modem required |- | style="font-weight:bold;"| Elisa Laajakaista Heti 10M/1M || 10.000 kbit || 1.000 kbit || Unlimited || 34,90 EUR || EuroDOCSIS v3.0 modem required |- | style="font-weight:bold;"| Elisa Laajakaista Heti 3M/600 kbit/s || 3.000 kbit || 600 kbit || Unlimited || 27,90 EUR || EuroDOCSIS modem required |- | style="font-weight:bold;"| Elisa Laajakaista Heti 1,2M/600 kbit/s || 1.200 kbit || 600 kbit || Unlimited || 21,90 EUR || EuroDOCSIS modem required |- | style="font-weight:bold;"| Elisa Laajakaista Heti 600/600 kbit/s || 600 kbit || 600 kbit || Unlimited || 17,90 EUR || EuroDOCSIS modem required |- |}

Germany

In Germany, Kabel Deutschland provides up to 30 Mbit/s downstream and up to 2 Mbit/s upstream, tests with 100 Mbit/s downstream are currently done in Hamburg, Cablesurf up to 16 Mbit/s, Unitymedia up to 32 Mbit/s, KabelBW up to 32 Mbit/s and primacom up to 10 Mbit/s.

Ireland

In the Republic of Ireland, the main cable network provider UPC Ireland (trading as chorus ntl), which is owned by Liberty Global, offer a wide range of packages from 3 Mbit/s down to 20 Mbit/s down, and 256 kbit/s up to 1.5 Mbit/s up, in the Dublin, Waterford and Galway cabled areas and certain parts of Limerick and Cork. UPC makes use of the DOCSIS packet cable standard, to provide high speed internet access and a VoIP phone service (VoIP service costs 5 EUR or 10 EUR per month, depending on how many of their services you take).

They offer the following four packages:

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|- ! Internet Plan !! Downstream !! Upstream !! Bandwidth Included !! Price |- | style="font-weight:bold;"| 3Mb Value || 3000 kbit || 256 kbit || 20 GB || 22 EUR |- | style="font-weight:bold;"| 6Mb Light* || 6000 kbit || 500 kbit || Unlimited GB || 27.50 EUR |- | style="font-weight:bold;"| 10Mb Express || 10000 kbit || 1000 kbit || Unlimited GB || 32 EUR |- | style="font-weight:bold;"| 20Mb Ultra || 20000 kbit || 1500 kbit || Unlimited GB || 42 EUR |} If broadband is taken without UPC's television service, then an additional 6 EUR fee applies on top of the monthly package fee. 6Mb light is the legacy 2Mb ntl package, and is no longer offered as an internet package option to customers. Those who were on the 2Mb package at the time it was removed, remain on a 6 Mbit/s package at 27.50 per month. It has also been rumoured that UPC may begin trialling 40 Mbit/s+ downstream packages sometime towards the end of 2008/start of 2009, pending a changeover to the new DOCSIS 3.0 technology.

Other major providers include: Digiweb currently provide up to 10 Mbit/s downstream using the DOCSIS packet cable standard over wireless microwave links in many urban centres across Ireland, using a Line Of Sight (LOS) CPE aerial to high site system. The system emulates a cable TV service through the 5 GHz band. However, at present, Digiweb only provide internet and VoIP services - no cable TV service is available. The service is branded as "Metro" broadband, and includes both internet and voice in the one package.

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|- ! Internet Plan !! Downstream !! Upstream !! Bandwidth Included !! Price |- | style="font-weight:bold;"| Metro Lite || 1000 kbit || 128 kbit || 10 GB || 24.95 EUR |- | style="font-weight:bold;"| Metro Value || 5000 kbit || 512 kbit || 20 GB || 34.95 EUR |- | style="font-weight:bold;"| Metro Home || 8000 kbit || 1000 kbit || 30 GB || 39.95 EUR |- | style="font-weight:bold;"| Metro Xtra || 12000 kbit || 1000 kbit || 50 MB || 59.95 EUR |}

In Dungarvan, Cablesurf or Casey Cablevision, provide 20 Mbit/s downstream, 512 kbit/s upstream via their cable tv infrastructure for 40 EUR per month.

The Netherlands

In The Netherlands UPC provides download speeds up to 120 Mbit/s and upload speeds up to 10 Mbit/s by using DOCSIS 3.

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|- ! Plan !! Downstream !! Upstream !! Bandwidth Included |- | style="font-weight:bold;"| UPC Internet 2 || 2 Mbps || 512 Kbps || Unlimited |- | style="font-weight:bold;"| UPC Internet 4 || 4 Mbps || 1 Mbps || Unlimited |- | style="font-weight:bold;"| UPC Internet 8 || 8 Mbps || 1.5 Mbps || Unlimited |- | style="font-weight:bold;"| UPC Internet 25 || 25 Mbps || 2.5 Mbps || Unlimited |- | style="font-weight:bold;"| UPC Fiber Power 60 || 60 Mbps || 6 Mbps || Unlimited |- | style="font-weight:bold;"| UPC Fiber Power 120 || 120 Mbps || 10 Mbps || Unlimited |- | style="font-weight:bold;"| Ziggo Z1 || 2 Mbps || 512 Kbps || Unlimited |- | style="font-weight:bold;"| Ziggo Z2 || 5 Mbps || 1 Mbps || Unlimited |- | style="font-weight:bold;"| Ziggo Z3 || 15 Mbps || 1.5 Mbps || Unlimited |- | style="font-weight:bold;"| CAIWAY Standaard || 4 Mbps || 512 Kbps || Unlimited |- | style="font-weight:bold;"| CAIWAY Premium || 8 Mbps || 1 Mbps || Unlimited |- | style="font-weight:bold;"| CAIWAY Super || 16 Mbps || 2 Mbps || Unlimited |- | style="font-weight:bold;"| CAIWAY Ultra || 24 Mbps || 2 Mbps || Unlimited |}

Norway

In Norway Get is testing Euro DOCSIS 3.0 at speeds in excess of 300 Mbit/s. with planned role out for Q4 2007

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|- ! Internet Plan !! Downstream !! Upstream !! extra upstream !! Bandwidth Included !! Price |- | style="font-weight:bold;"| S || 1250 kbit || 750 kbit || 1500 kbit || UNLIMITED || 195 NOK |- | style="font-weight:bold;"| M || 2500 kbit || 750 kbit || 1500 kbit || UNLIMITED || 279 NOK |- | style="font-weight:bold;"| L || 5000 kbit || 1000 kbit || 2000 kbit || UNLIMITED || 379 NOK |- | style="font-weight:bold;"| XL || 10000 kbit || 1500 kbit || 3000 kbit || UNLIMITED || 479 NOK |- | style="font-weight:bold;"| Xtreme || 26000 kbit || 1500 kbit || 3000 kbit || UNLIMITED || 699 NOK | |} All extra upstream are 49NOK a month.

Portugal

In Portugal, TV Cabo provides 30 Mbit/s in downstream, and 1 Mbit/s at upstream.

Russia

Akado (http://www.akado.ru) is a major Cable Internet and TV provider in Moscow and is the largest DOCSIS-based provider in Russia. In 2006, Akado had the smallest market share of Moscow's biggest four Internet providers, but reportedly intends to upgrade to DOCSIS 2.0 in 2008.

Serbia

In Serbia, Serbia Broadband provides up to 8 Mbit/s downstream. IKOM offers up to 6 Mbit/s, and Radijus Vektor offers up to 5 Mbit/s downstream and 384 Kbit/s upstream. There are other, smaller broadband ISPs and higher speed ADSL Telekom is more commonly used.

Spain

In Spain, Ono offers 6 Mbit/s (300 kbit/s), 12 Mbit/s (500 kbit/s) and 25 Mbit/s (1 Mbit/s) starting from September 2007:

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|- ! Internet Plan !! Downstream !! Upstream !! Bandwidth Included !! Price |- | style="font-weight:bold;"| 6Mb || 6144 kbit || 300 kbit || Unlimited MB || 50 EUR |- | style="font-weight:bold;"| 12Mb || 12288 kbit || 500 kbit || Unlimited MB || 60 EUR |- | style="font-weight:bold;"| 25Mb || 25600 kbit || 1024 kbit || Unlimited MB || 75 EUR |}

Sweden

In Sweden, Com Hem currently provides up to 24 Mbit/s downstream and up to 10 Mbit/s upstream at limited areas.

Switzerland

In Switzerland cablecom GmbH (http://www.hispeed.ch), the Cable Internet, TV and Telephone provider offers Internet access with data rates of up to 25000 / 2500 kbit/s.

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|- ! Internet Plan !! Downstream !! Upstream !! Bandwidth Included !! Price |- | style="font-weight:bold;"| hispeed 2000 || 2000 kbit || 200 kbit || Unlimited MB || 34 CHF (29$) |- | style="font-weight:bold;"| hispeed 10000 || 10000 kbit || 1000 kbit || Unlimited MB || 49 CHF (42$) |- | style="font-weight:bold;"| hispeed 25000 || 25000 kbit || 2500 kbit || Unlimited MB || 75 CHF (64$) |}

Turkey

In Turkey, Turksat Uydunet provides up to 20 Mbit/s downstream.

Ukraine

• Volia (http://volia.com), the Cable Internet and TV provider in Kiev, Ukraine offers Internet access with 38 Mbit/s downstream and 256 kbit/s upstream. Volia is currently offering the following plans:

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|- ! Internet Plan !! Downstream !! Upstream !! Bandwidth Included !! Price Monthly |- | style="font-weight:bold;"| Dialog|| 38000 kbit || 256 kbit || 2 000 MB || 6,5 USD + 0,0065 USD/MB over limit |- | style="font-weight:bold;"| Search || 38000 kbit || 256 kbit || 6 000 MB || 9,75 USD + 0,0032 USD/MB over limit |- | style="font-weight:bold;"| Game || 38000 kbit || 256 kbit || 20 000 MB || 13 USD + 0,0013 USD/MB over limit |- | style="font-weight:bold;"| Life || 38000 kbit || 256 kbit || 60 000 MB || 19,5 USD + 0,0006 USD/MB over limit |}

• Nadezhda (http://www.netlux.org), the Cable Internet and TV provider in Donetsk, Ukraine offers Internet access with 1 Mbit/s downstream and 1 Mbit/s upstream. Nadegda is currently offering the following plans:

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|- ! Internet Plan !! Downstream !! Upstream !! Bandwidth Included |- | style="font-weight:bold;"| Econom || 1024 kbit || 1024 kbit || 0 MB |- | style="font-weight:bold;"| Home || 1024 kbit || 512 kbit || 500 MB |- | style="font-weight:bold;"| Home-Premium || 512 kbit || 256 kbit || Unlimited MB |}

United Kingdom

• Virgin Media is the largest Cable Internet provider in the United Kingdom, rebranded from a previous merger between two formerly separate cable companies, NTL and Telewest. Since May 2007, their premium package (XXL) offers download speeds of up to 50 megabits per second, with upload speeds of 1.5 megabits per second.

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|- ! Internet Plan !! Downstream !! Upstream |- | style="font-weight:bold;"| Size M || 2048 kbit || 200 kbit |- | style="font-weight:bold;"| Size L || 10000 kbit || 512 kbit |- | style="font-weight:bold;"| Size XL || 20480 kbit || 768 kbit |}

• Smallworld Media operates Cable Internet on the Isle of Wight.

Asia & Oceania

Australia

• Telstra offers cable with speed plans of up to 8, 17 and 30 Mb down, and 128, 256 Kb and 1Mb up. Telstra through its ISP BigPond provides these cable internet services, and currently has the largest cable internet network in Australia, covering the main Australian capitals (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide and the Gold Coast).

• Optus through its ISP OptusNet offers one standard speed of up to 20 Mbit down and 128Kb up. These cable incumbents in Australia are ramping up speeds to keep product parity with the more competitive ADSL2+ services.

• Neighbourhood Cable, a rural Australian cable provider, allows users to opt for a shaped plan at a lower cost (with speeds similar to those of ADSL providers) or an "uncapped" service, which promises download speeds of up to 30 Mbit/s and upstream speeds of 2 Mbit/s.

• TransACT provides cable internet in the Australian Capital Territory, specifically Canberra, at affordable prices at with speeds up to 10Mb per second.

India

• Asianet Data Line provides up to 2 MBit/s

 Airtel provides 16 mb connections in main cities like delhi.

Israel

In Israel, the cables company Hot offers eleven residential cable broadband plans 12:

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|- ! Downstream !! Upstream !! Bandwidth Included !! Price/Month |- | 750 kbit || 96 kbit || Unlimited || 49 ₪ |- | 1,536 kbit || 128 kbit || Unlimited || 55 ₪ |- | 1,536 kbit || 256 kbit || Unlimited || 74 ₪ |- | 1,536 kbit || 512 kbit || Unlimited || 79 ₪ |- | 2,560 kbit || 256 kbit || Unlimited || 79 ₪ |- | 3,072 kbit || 150 kbit || Unlimited || 80 ₪ |- | 3,072 kbit || 278 kbit || Unlimited || 90 ₪ |- | 5,120 kbit || 512 kbit || Unlimited || 119 ₪ |- | 6,144 kbit || 600 kbit || Unlimited || 139 ₪ |- | 7,168 kbit || 700 kbit || Unlimited || 149 ₪ |- | 10,240 kbit || 1,000 kbit || Unlimited || 259 ₪ |- |}

New Zealand

In Wellington and Christchurch, New Zealand, operator TelstraClear provides downstream speeds of 10 Mbit/s, 4 Mbit/s and 2 Mbit/s, with all plans including an upstream speed of 2 Mbit/s. A new 25 Mbit/s plan has been released in the Christchurch region.

Philippines

SkyBroadband, the cable internet arm of SkyCable Philippines offers the following speeds at the following rates to Metro Manila subscribers:

• 1 Mbit downstream at ₱999/month
• 1.5 Mbit downstream at ₱999/month (15% discount on SkyCable TV subscription)
• 2 Mbit downstream at ₱1999/month
• 3 Mbit downstream at ₱1999/month (15% discount on SkyCable TV subscription)
• 6 Mbit downstream at ₱3999/month (SkyCable Gold TV subscription included)
• 12 Mbit downstream at ₱5999/month (SkyCable Gold TV subscription included)

In Clark, Pampanga Comclark Network and Technology Corp. offers residential and commercial broadband plans ranging from 384kbit to 3072 kbit

Singapore

In Singapore, Starhub offers five residential cable broadband plans:

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|- ! Internet Plan !! Downstream !! Upstream !! Bandwidth Included |- | style="font-weight:bold;"| MaxOnline FlexiSurf, By Hour || 1,500 kbit || 256 kbit || UNLIMITED |- | style="font-weight:bold;"| MaxOnline FlexiSurf, By Day || 6,000 kbit || 256 kbit || UNLIMITED |- | style="font-weight:bold;"| MaxOnline Express || 8,000 kbit || 784 kbit || UNLIMITED |- | style="font-weight:bold;"| MaxOnline Premium || 12,000 kbit || 1200 kbit || UNLIMITED |- | style="font-weight:bold;"| MaxOnline Ultimate || 100,000 kbit || 10,000 kbit || UNLIMITED |}

Note: DOCSIS 3.0 modems (eg. Motorola SB6100) are needed to achieve speeds up to 100,000 kbit/s. MaxOnline Ultimate users with DOCSIS 2.0 modems (eg. Motorola SB5101) would be limited to 32,000 kbit/s.