Monthly Archive for August, 2007

I recently stumbled upon some information on an increased speed offering from Comcast for its high speed internet customers. The plan was referred to as ‘Comcast Blast!’ and is available in some areas already. I read that Comcast is even offering it for free to some of its high speed internet customers for six months, giving them speeds up to 16Mbps down and 2Mbps up. Note that this is quite different from Comcast’s ‘PowerBoost’ which gives customers a temporary surge in maximum speed; Comcast’s Blast! service is supposed to be a fixed constant speed increase.

Last night I called Comcast to get a better idea for the situation and to check if Blast! is available in the Boston area. When I finally got through to Someone Who Knows™ — a kind woman who identified herself as Joy at the Boston Comcast High Speed Internet call center — I was told that Comcast does indeed have a Blast! plan but unfortunately it is not available in the Boston area yet. She told me that they are actively rolling it out to all locations and that ‘within a few months, towards fall, winter and the first of the new year’ I should receive an announcement of the new service in my bill.

Until then, PowerBoost will have to cut it.