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After months of issuing nationwide press releases promoting Comcast’s new, blazing fast 2Gbps fiber to the home broadband, the cable company has finally announced it will be available (so far) … in one single 993-acre unfinished planned community in a northeastern suburb outside of Houston: Humble, Tex.
The Groves, designed to eventually contain 2,200 single-family homes on 993 acres west of West Lake Houston Parkway and south of Kingwood, currently resembles a crop circle because much of the community has yet to be built.
Crescent Communities, the North Carolina-based developer, calls The Groves a “refuge” from the rest of Houston, with amenities close at hand. Residents may not instinctively balk at Comcast’s expensive super-fast service requiring a $1,000 installation fee and a multi-year commitment to get the special promotional price of $159/mo. Housing at The Groves starts in the upper $200,000s and extends into the $500,000 range.
The Houston Business Journal reports Comcast will directly connect homes in the development to fiber optics, not the usual coaxial cable used elsewhere. Every home in the development will have access to the all-fiber network, which will offer 250Mbps and higher speeds, according to Comcast spokesman Michael Bybee.
Comcast will officially launch the 2Gbps service next week.
The Groves (center) is a master-planned upscale residential community that will eventually contain over 2,000 homes. But in this photograph, provided by the developer, it looks more like a crop circle.
Unfinished Business: Comcast will not face much of a challenge wiring an incomplete planned community for fiber optics. Much of The Groves has yet to be built. (Dark Green: Unfinished/Tan: Complete)
Just curious, will the homes in this new subdivision be “wired” with Two strands of fiber to the home? One from Comcast and a second from Att/Uverse.
I suppose that is up to the developer and the providers. I don’t think there is any exclusivity in this deal so when the conduit goes in, any utility should be able to access it.
And if you don’t live in these exclusive franchise areas you will be forced to have 0 wired choices: LTE or 5G when that one comes out, Satellite and Fixed Wireless and all 3 have two major problems: Extortion prices and a microscopic data cap. Other problems such as latency and speeds come into mind as well.