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North America

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

• 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. [6]

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Dominican Republic

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

There are several cable providers in Belgium. Each have their own covered area within Belgium. For Flanders, that's Telenet; for Wallonia, that's VOO and for Brussels, that's Numericable.

Details about Telenet

Internet Service	Downstream	Upstream	Bandwidth Included	Price
BasicNet	1000 kbit	128 kbit	1 Gigabyte	20,00 EUR
ComfortNet	6000 kbit	256 kbit	4 Gigabyte	30,64 EUR
ExpressNet	15000 kbit	1024 kbit	25 Gigabyte	42,91 EUR
TurboNet	25000 kbit	1250 kbit	60 Gigabyte	61,32 EUR

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 2010.

Details about Voo

Internet Service	Downstream	Upstream	Bandwidth Included	Price
UnPeu	1000 kbit	128 kbit	1 Gigabyte	20,00 EUR
Beaucoup	5000 kbit	256 kbit	30 Gigabyte	32,50 EUR
Illimité	4000 kbit	256 kbit	no limit	34 EUR
Passionément	15000 kbit	1024 kbit	30 Gigabyte	40 EUR

Details about Numéricable

Internet Service	Downstream	Upstream	Bandwidth Included	Price	extra notes
4 Méga	4000 kbit	384 kbit	4 Gigabyte	29,95 EUR
100 Méga	100 Mbit	5 Mbit	40 Gigabyte	42,90 EUR	volumelimit can be lifted for 9,90 EUR extra; 100 megabit not everywhere available

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:

Packet	Downstream (Limit)	Upstream (Limit)
TINK MINI	1024 kbit (1 GB)	1024 kbit (1 GB)
TINK	2048 kbit (5 GB)	1024 kbit (5 GB)
TINK PLUS	3072 kbit (7 GB)	1024 kbit (7 GB)
TINK MAX	4096 kbit (10 GB)	1024 kbit (10 GB)
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:

Internet Plan	Downstream	Upstream
Mistral Light	512 kbit	128 kbit
Mistral	1536 kbit	384 kbit
Scirocco	3072 kbit	512 kbit
Bora	6144 kbit	768 kbit
Typhoon	16384 kbit	1024 kbit

Cyprus

In Cyprus, Cablenet [9] 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.

Internet Service	Downstream	Upstream	Bandwidth Included	Price	extra notes
Sonera Laajakaista Extra 100/5	100 Mbit	5 Mbit	Unlimited	No country-wide pricing	EuroDOCSIS v3.0 modem required, 2008Q1
Sonera Laajakaista Extra 24/2	24 Mbit	2 Mbit	Unlimited	N/A	EuroDOCSIS v2.0 modem required, 2008Q1
Welho 110M	110 Mbit	5 Mbit	Unlimited	54.90 EUR	EuroDOCSIS v3 modem required.
Welho 10M	10 Mbit	1 Mbit	Unlimited	44.90 EUR	EuroDOCSISv1.1 modem included
Welho 5M	5 Mbit	1 Mbit	Unlimited	35.90 EUR	EuroDOCSIS v1.1 modem included
Welho 2M	2 Mbit	500 kbit	Unlimited	24.90 EUR	EuroDOCSIS v1.1 modem included
Welho 275	275 kbit	100 kbit	Unlimited	19.90 EUR	EuroDOCSIS v1.1 modem included
Elisa Laajakaista Heti 30/1 M	30 Mbit	1 Mbit	Unlimited	39.90 EUR	EuroDOCSIS v3.0 modem required
Elisa Laajakaista Heti 10M/1M	10 Mbit	1 Mbit	Unlimited	34.90 EUR	EuroDOCSIS v3.0 modem required
Elisa Laajakaista Heti 3M/600 kbit/s	3 Mbit	600 kbit	Unlimited	27.90 EUR	EuroDOCSIS modem required
Elisa Laajakaista Heti 1.2M/600 kbit/s	1.2 Mbit	600 kbit	Unlimited	21.90 EUR	EuroDOCSIS modem required
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 (UPC Germany) up to 32 Mbit/s, KabelBW up to 100 Mbit/s and primacom up to 10 Mbit/s.

Italy

In Italy optical fiber has been available since 2000. The main company offering Optical-Fiber-based internet connections is Fastweb spa. Several companies offer LLU Adsl2, such as Infostrada, Tiscali, Tele2.

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 on their digital cable platform in Dublin, Cork, Galway, Limerick, Waterford and other urban areas throughout the Republic of Ireland. 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:

Internet Plan	Downstream	Upstream	Bandwidth Included	Price
3Mb Value	3000 kbit	256 kbit	20 GB	22 EUR
6Mb Light*	6000 kbit	500 kbit	Unlimited GB	27.50 EUR
10Mb Express	10000 kbit	1000 kbit	Unlimited GB	32 EUR
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.

The Netherlands

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

Plan	Downstream	Upstream	Bandwidth Included
UPC Internet 5	5 Mbps	512 Kbps	Unlimited
UPC Fiber Power 25	25 Mbps	1.5 Mbps	Unlimited
UPC Fiber Power 30	30 Mbps	3 Mbps	Unlimited
UPC Fiber Power 60	60 Mbps	6 Mbps	Unlimited
UPC Fiber Power 90	90 Mbps	6 Mbps	Unlimited
UPC Fiber Power 120	120 Mbps	10 Mbps	Unlimited
Ziggo Z1	2 Mbps	512 Kbps	Unlimited
Ziggo Z2	5 Mbps	1 Mbps	Unlimited
Ziggo Z3	15 Mbps	1.5 Mbps	Unlimited
CAIWAY Standaard	4 Mbps	512 Kbps	Unlimited
CAIWAY Premium	8 Mbps	1 Mbps	Unlimited
CAIWAY Super	16 Mbps	2 Mbps	Unlimited
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

Internet Plan	Downstream	Upstream	extra upstream	Bandwidth Included	Price
S	1250 kbit	750 kbit	1500 kbit	UNLIMITED	195 NOK
M	3500 kbit	1000 kbit	2000 kbit	UNLIMITED	279 NOK
L	7000 kbit	1750 kbit	2000 kbit	UNLIMITED	379 NOK
XL	17500 kbit	2000 kbit	3000 kbit	UNLIMITED	479 NOK
Xtreme	26000 kbit	2000 kbit	4000 kbit	UNLIMITED	699 NOK
Xtreme50	50000 kbit	5000 kbit	n/a kbit	UNLIMITED	1199 NOK

Double upstream are availible for 49NOK a month.

Portugal

In Portugal, as of September 2009, ZON TV Cabo provides 1GB/s in downstream, and 1GB/s at upstream using EuroDOCSIS3.0. ^[1]

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^{[citation needed]}, but reportedly intends to upgrade to DOCSIS 2.0 in 2008^{[citation needed]}.

Serbia

In Serbia, Serbia Broadband provides up to 60 Mbit/s downstream. Radijus Vektor offers up to 60 Mbit/s downstream and 2 Mbit/s upstream and IKOM offers up to 6 Mbit/s. 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:

Internet Plan	Downstream	Upstream	Bandwidth Included	Price
6Mb	6144 kbit	300 kbit	Unlimited MB	50 EUR
12Mb	12288 kbit	500 kbit	Unlimited MB	60 EUR
25Mb	25600 kbit	1024 kbit	Unlimited MB	75 EUR

Sweden

In Sweden, Com Hem currently provides up to 50 Mbit/s downstream and up to 10 Mbit/s upstream at limited areas. 100mbit/s down- and upstream can be acquired through either Bahnhof or city networks, these connections are available in almost every major city in Sweden.

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.

Internet Plan	Downstream	Upstream	Bandwidth Included	Price
hispeed 2000	2000 kbit	200 kbit	Unlimited MB	34 CHF (29$)
hispeed 10000	10000 kbit	1000 kbit	Unlimited MB	49 CHF (42$)
hispeed 25000	25000 kbit	2500 kbit	Unlimited MB	75 CHF (64$)

Turkey

In Turkey, Turksat Uydunet provides up to 20 Mbit/s downstream^[2].

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:

Internet Plan	Downstream	Upstream	Bandwidth Included	Price Monthly
Dialog	38000 kbit	256 kbit	2 000 MB	6,5 USD + 0,0065 USD/MB over limit
Search	38000 kbit	256 kbit	6 000 MB	9,75 USD + 0,0032 USD/MB over limit
Game	38000 kbit	256 kbit	20 000 MB	13 USD + 0,0013 USD/MB over limit
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:

Internet Plan	Downstream	Upstream	Bandwidth Included
Econom	1024 kbit	1024 kbit	0 MB
Home	1024 kbit	512 kbit	500 MB
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. Virgin is currently testing a new service offering up to 200 megabits per second in download speeds.

Internet Plan	Downstream	Upstream
Size L	10000 kbit	512 kbit
Size XL	20489 kbit	768 kbit
Size XXL	50000 kbit	1024 kbit

• Smallworld Cable and Wightcable also operate Cable Internet services.

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 cable internet up to 4 MBit/s of download speed.

Internet Plan	Downstream	Price/Month
WOW 99	2048 kbit	99 Rs. + Tax
WOW 199	2048 kbit	199 Rs. + Tax
WOW 249	2048 kbit	249 Rs. + Tax

• Hathway
• YOU Broadband & Cable India Limited (www.youbroadband.in)

(formerly YOU Telecom)

Israel

In Israel, the cable company Hot offers sixteen residential cable broadband plans [10]:

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 ₪
12,288 kbit	1,024 kbit	Unlimited	109 ₪
16,384 kbit	1,024 kbit	Unlimited	139 ₪
32,768 kbit	1,024 kbit	Unlimited	349 ₪
65,536 kbit	1,024 kbit	Unlimited	499 ₪
102,400 kbit	2,048 kbit	Unlimited	599 ₪

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^[3]:

• 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:

Internet Plan	Downstream	Upstream	Bandwidth Included
MaxOnline FlexiSurf, By Hour	1,500 kbit	256 kbit	UNLIMITED
MaxOnline FlexiSurf, By Day	6,000 kbit	256 kbit	UNLIMITED
MaxOnline Express	8,000 kbit	784 kbit	UNLIMITED
MaxOnline Premium	12,000 kbit	1200 kbit	UNLIMITED
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.

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