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Time Warner Cable launches D3 in Midlands, So.Carolina

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Time Warner Cable has launched its DOCSIS 3.0-based Wideband Internet tier in the Midlands area of South Carolina, including Columbia, Blythewood, Batesburg, Sumter and Orangeburg.

Wideband Internet, which has download speeds of up to 50 Mbps and upload speeds of up to 5 Mbps, is available to both residential and Time Warner Cable Business Class customers in the above Midland areas The launch represents Time Warner Cable's first roll-out of Wideband Internet in South Carolina.

Time Warner Cable said it expects all of its other serviceable areas in South Carolina, including Myrtle Beach and Hilton Head, to have Wideband Internet by this fall.

"As more members of the household simultaneously surf the Internet, download vacation photographs or watch live television through the TWCableTV app on their iPad, Wideband Internet provides all home network devices the fastest connection speeds in the area," said Charlene Keys, area vice president of operations for South Carolina.

During yesterday’s second-quarter earnings call, Time Warner Cable President and COO Rob Marcus said the cable operator had DOCSIS 3.0 deployed across 60 percent of its footprint and expects to have it fully rolled out next year.

In the second quarter, Time Warner Cable added 25,000 DOCSIS 3.0 subscribers, which more than doubled its previous total.

from; CedMagazine.com