Comcast Broadens ‘Gigabit Pro’ Rollout

Comcast said it has begun to deploy Gigabit Pro, its new residential 2 Gbps broadband service, in Nashville (TN) and Middle Tennessee, announcing that it will be available to about 500,000 customers in the region starting in June. Comcast has not announced pricing on the service, which will use targeted fiber-to-the-premises deployments to deliver symmetrical 2-Gig speeds.

Notably, Nashville is also being targeted by Google Fiber as part of an 18-city expansion. AT&T has also identified Nashville as a launch site for GigaPower, its fiber-based 1-Gig broadband service. Comcast has not yet announced pricing on Gigabit Pro, a service that it expects to make available to about 18 million homes by the end of the year, offering it to customers who are within about one-third of a mile of the company’s fiber network. Deployments of Gigabit Pro is already underway in Chattanooga (TN); Atlanta (GA), parts of Florida (Miami, Jacksonville, West Palm and Ft. Lauderdale), and certain areas of California.