Frontier (NASDAQ: FYBR) says it is launching 5-Gbps services across its network. The announcement comes slightly less than a year after the company introduced 2-Gbps services.
Customers can sign up for the symmetrical 5-Gbps offer starting at $154.99 a month with autopay. The service package includes uncapped data, a WiFi router, free installation, and “premium” tech support.
“We set a standard with network-wide 2 Gig internet last year, and now we’ve done it again,” said John Harrobin, Frontier’s executive vice president of consumer. “Our 5-gig offer meets the growing demand for multi-gig speeds and delivers the ‘un-cable’ experience by making the fastest upload and download speeds available throughout our fiber network.”
Frontier asserts that a 5-Gbps customer will be able to download a House of Dragons episode in 4K (22 GB for what is typically an hour-long episode) in less than 36 seconds and a 100-minute 8K movie (67 GB) in less than 2 minutes.
Frontier is in the midst of an aggressive fiber broadband infrastructure roll out (see "Frontier FTTP build reaches 5 million premises passed"). The company has targeted 10 million premises passed by 2025.
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