List Of Cable Internet Providers - Best Internet Provider

Cable Internet service is a popular choice among consumers who want a combination of speed, reliability and performance. Cable Internet access varies from region to region but it is typically available wherever Cable Television services are offered and it is transmitted through coaxial cable.

Americas

Brazil

In Brazil, NET provides a service called Vírtua, with eight different plans ranging from 512 kbit/s to 120 Mbit/s maximum downstream:

VIACABO (owned by Adelphia Communications Corporation) offers cable internet for selected cities in Brazil, with speed varying to 1 Mbit/s to 10 Mbit/s, and more affordable prices.

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.

Chile

Colombia

• UNE Telecomunicaciones, which is owned by EPM, offers up to 8 Mbit/s.

Dominican Republic

Jamaica

Mexico

Peru

Peru has major internet providers, Movistar and Claro. Both cable operators offer their services with no download cap.

Movistar

The Movistar network is in the digitalization process. These speeds are offered in Lima; in other departments the speeds may vary.

Due to the ADSL technology limitations, some speeds can't be contracted in some locations, because the customer premises can be too far from the telephone exchange's provider (DSLAM).

The services from 15 Mbit/s and down can include cable TV at customer request; speeds from 20 Mbit/s can be contracted only with cable TV included.

See products list Movistar Peru (in spanish)

Claro

All services runs over an HFC Network using DOCSIS 2 or DOCSIS 3, 120 Mbit/s are offered only in some Lima districts at this moment.

United States

Europe

• The operator Liberty Global Europe (formerly UGC Europe, locally known as UPC/GET (in Norway)/Unitymedia in Germany) in Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, the Republic of Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland and Slovakia offers the service chello in ranges up to 250 Mbit/s downstream and 25 Mbit/s upstream.

Azerbaijan

In Azerbaijan, KATV1 provides up to 100 Mbit/s downstream.

Belgium

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

Details about Telenet

In 2007 Telenet bought UPC Belgium (cable deliverer in Brussels and Leuven). Telenet holds a monopoly on the Flemish cable network, which is 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, which rolled out in 2010.

Details about Voo

Details about Numéricable

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Global Internet d.o.o. Novi Travnik

Global Internet d.o.o., a Novi Travnik-based ISP (currently operating in Bugojno, Busovača, Donji Vakuf, Kupres, Livno, Novi Travnik, Tomislavgrad, Travnik and Vitez), offers the following flat-rate internet access options to private individuals:

• Using FTTH/B infrastructure:

• Using wireless networking infrastructure, mainly in rural, less accessible regions:

Others

In Zenica (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Telekabel provides up to 6 Mbit/s downstream and 768 kbit/s upstream. It offers the following packets:

In Sarajevo HS-KT provides up to 20 Mbit/s downstream and upstream up to 2 Mbit/s. Telemach Sarajevo provides up to 80Mbit/s downstream and upstream up to 4 Mbit/s. Following packets are offered: provides up to 80Mbit/s downstream and upstream up to 4 Mbit/s. The following packets are offered:

Croatia

In Croatia, B.net has been providing up to 120Mbit/s over its HFC infrastructure. VIPNet acquired BNet in 2011.

They offer the following plans:

Cyprus

In Cyprus, Cablenet provides up to 120 Mbit/s downstream and 8 Mbit/s upstream.

Estonia

In Estonia, there are three major cable internet providers (amongst other, smaller providers): AS Starman, Elion Enterprises Limited and STV AS. Elion offers higher speeds for the same price in certain areas where the infrastructure has been improved (end-goal being that everyone will move to higher speed plans eventually) and hence both options have been outlined in the table below.

Starman currently retains its old plans for customers who don't wish to upgrade and who joined the service before 21 September 2014 (the old plans have speeds approximately half of the current speeds and with costs lower by 11%-23%, depending on the plan). Starman no longer utilises the PowerBoost technology with its new service plans.

STV applies region-based pricing and the price/speed ratio is largely dependent on the different service plans. The prices specified in the table below are only for the Saturn service plans.

Finland

In Finland, the three main ISPs for cable internet are Welho, Elisa and Sonera and there are several smaller local providers. These three largest have told of upgrades to DOCSIS 3.0 speeds as early as 2007. At least Elisa already offers 10/1M and 30/1M speeds requiring an 3.0 version modem, and provides Netgear CM232 to upgrading customers.

Germany

Approximately 40% of households in Germany are connected to the cable TV network.

Unitymedia (a subsidiary of Liberty Global, serving North Rhine-Westphalia, Hesse and Baden-Württemberg) offers up to 400 Mbit/s down and 20 Mbit/s up. The maximum speed at Vodafone (formerly Kabel Deutschland, available in the other 13 states) has also been raised to 400 Mbit/s down and 25 Mbit/s up by June 2016 for consumer plans and 200 Mbit/s down for business plans (which are also available to consumers). 2.8 million households are connected via the third cable provider, Tele Columbus. The cable providers Kabel BW and primacom were bought up by Unitymedia and Tele Columbus respectively.

Greece

Since February 2012 Hellenic Cable Networks, located in Kalamaria, Greece, offers cable internet services.

Services & prices

Installation fee is 40EUR, and is paid after the end of the free month trial. Soon to be provided are telephony and pay-TV services.

Ireland

In the Republic of Ireland, the main cable network provider Virgin Media, which is owned by Liberty Global, offer a range of packages from 50 Mbit/s down to 150 Mbit/s down, throughout the Republic of Ireland. Virgin Media makes use of the EuroDOCSIS 3.0 packet cable standard, to provide high speed internet access and a VoIP phone service

The company offers the following three packages:

Italy

In Italy the main technology used for accessing Internet is ADSL/ADSL2+. The maximum speed of ADSL2+ is 20 Mbit/s in download, and 1 Mbit/s in upload.

The main ISP is TIM. From 2015 many operators started to deploy VDSL (100 Mbit/s down, 20 Mbit/s up) and VDSL2 (300 Mbit/s down, 20 Mbit/s up) technology (copper on local loop). Using this technology, optic fiber arrives to the cabinet, and then connects customers using copper (FTTC).

In Italy optical fiber has been available since 2000. The main company offering optical-fiber-based internet connections is Vodafone. Several companies offer LLU Adsl2, such as Infostrada, Tiscali, Fastweb, and Telecom Italia.

In Italy not all the plans are available anywhere: form small towns connected at 640k, to 1 Gbit/s available only in a few big cities. ISPs call this fact "digital divide".

The Netherlands

In The Netherlands UPC Netherlands and Ziggo (both owned by Liberty Global) provide download speeds up to 150 Mbit/s and upload speeds up to 10 Mbit/s by using DOCSIS 3. ZeelandNet limits its operations to the Zeeland province of the country, where it is also the only operating cable provider.

Norway

Altibox

Altibox is an ISP that only uses fiber. There are different Altibox providers.

Bayonette

Bayonette is an ISP that only offers to Housing associations or big companys. and is the first company to offer 10 gigabit in Norway.

Canal Digital

Canal Digital upgraded their network in December 2011. The upgrade replaced the old Mega plan with the new Super 70 in addition to an overall reduction in prices. In August 2013, Canal Digital announced that they wanted to reduce the number of plans, and force an overall speed increase for customers. The Super 70 was removed and existing customers of the plan was forced to either upgrade to 100 Mbit for a cost increase of 100 NOK/month, or to reduce speed to 50 MBit. Docsis 3.0 (Cable TV)

Fiber customer

Housing association may get lower cost than this pricelist.

Get

Get is testing Euro DOCSIS 3.0 at speeds in excess of 300 Mbit/s. with planned role out for Q4 2007.

Double upstream are available for 49NOK a month.

Homenet

Portugal

Two cable internet providers operate currently in Portugal.

• NOS Comunicacoes as result of a merger between ZON and Optimus; being ZON the rebranding of TV Cabo since the split from Portugal Telecom: http://www.nos.pt/institucional/PT/sobre-a-nos/Paginas/sobre-a-empresa-nos.aspx
• Cabovisao: http://cabovisao.pt/cabovisao.php

Romania

In Romania the major ISP today is RCS&RDS. It provides speeds up to 1000 Mbit/s in download using FTTB and FTTH technology. The second major ISP is Telekom, owned by T-Mobile. Telekom offers static IP's to residential clients, despite RCS-RDS who don't offer static IP's to residential clients. RCS-RDS Data Plans

Telekom Data Plans

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, but reportedly intends to upgrade to DOCSIS 2.0 in 2008.

Serbia

In Serbia,Targo Telekom provides up to 120 Mbit/s downstream and 60 Mbit/s upstream. 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.

Slovakia

Fastest internet in Slovakia is offerd by UPC (https://www.upc.sk)

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:

Sweden

In Sweden, most ISPs has a 1000Mbit/s fiber plan available with unlimited data.

Switzerland

In Switzerland UPC Cablecom GmbH <http://www.upc-cablecom.ch>, the Cable Internet, TV and Telephone provider offers

Quickline <http://www.quickline.com/> the Cable Internet, TV and Telephone provider offers

Turkey

In Turkey, Turksat Uydunet provides up to 100 Mbit/s downstream:

Pay As you Use

Quoted Tariffs

Eco Unlimited Tariffs

Limitless Rates

Symmetric Internet

Antivirus Service Rates

Internet Services

Please check this page: https://www.turksatkablo.com.tr/EN/int-servisler.aspx

Frequently Asked Questions

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Ukraine

• Volia <http://www.volia.com/eng>, the Cable Internet and TV provider in Ukraine offers Internet access with up to 150 Mbit/s downstream and up to 3072 kbit/s upstream. Volia is currently offering unlimited plans (with implementation of Fair Use Policy):

• 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:

United Kingdom

• Virgin Media <http://store.virginmedia.com/broadband/compare-broadband/index.html>, Is the only cable Internet and TV provider in United Kingdom that offers internet access with up to 200 Mbit/s downstream and up to 20 Mbit/s upstream with the new Gamer package that was introduced 31st August 2016, Virgin Media is currently offering unlimited plans (with implementation of Fair Use Policy):

With a Phone line (Includes a £14.99 activation fee)

Without a Virgin Media phone line. (Includes a £14.99 activation fee)

Price and Information corrected 03-12-2016

Virgin Media offers the following speeds however not all packages are offered due to them been discounted, Only the ones above are offered, Packages are from EuroDOCSIS 1.1/2.0/3.0

Price and Information corrected 03-12-2016

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.

Bangladesh

Purbachal Cyber Network is the first ISP in Purbachal New Town, the biggest planned township in Bangladesh). It has been in service since January 2014.

India

• Excel Broadband: Excel Broadband is a dynamic company specializes in providing integrated communications solutions focusing domestic segment, offers optimal access to Internet and a range of related services.
• BSNL is the National Internet Backbone (NIB). It provides maximum lease line to the other providers in the country.
• Tata Teleservices provide 100 MBit/s connection in select cities for about Rs 10500.
• Reliance India provides broadband for some urban areas.
• Asianet Broadband provides cable internet up to 50 MBits/s of download speed to Kerala.
• Airtel provides access to 2Mbit/s, 4 Mbit/s, 8 MBit/s, 16 Mbit/s in Chennai, Delhi, Mumbai, Gurgaon and select cities across India.
• As of 2014, Hathway broadband now offers 50 Mbit/s home broadband speed.
• YOU Broadband & Cable India Limited (www.youbroadband.in)(formerly YOU Telecom)
• Railwire is an initiative of RailTel Corporation of India Ltd ., Ministry of Railways, Government of India
• ACT BroadBand (Atria Convergence Technologies)
• Beam Fiber
• Micronova Network Solutions provides internet services in various segment like Broadband, Enterprises solutions and other IT services in selected cities across Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.

Indonesia

There are several residential broadband providers in Indonesia, mostly using fibre optics.

• Biznet

Serves 79 cities, 973 buildings, 355,012 houses, unlimited data transfer.

• CBN

CBN Fiber Broadband available in Jakarta and Bandung (Java), Bali, and Medan in Sumatra with unlimited data transfer.

• Firstmedia

Serves 16 cities and has widest selection of TV Channels, unlimited data transfer.

• IndiHome

Owned by Telkom Indonesia, currently serves all major islands across the country, more than 160 cities.

• Indosat Ooredoo Gig

By Indosat Ooredoo, available in 13 cities, all in Java Island, unlimited data transfer.

• MNC Playmedia

Owned by MNC, available in Jakarta, Bandung, Semarang, Surabaya, and Malang (all in Java Island), and Medan in Sumatra, unlimited data transfer.

• MyRepublic

MyRepublic in Indonesia covers 15 major cities in Java and Sumatra, unlimited data transfer.

All packages including 23 Local TV Channels.

Israel

In Israel, the cable company Hot offers six residential cable broadband plans:

New Zealand

In Wellington, Christchurch and Kapiti Coast, New Zealand, operator Vodafone NZ provides downstream speeds of 50 Mbit/s and an upstream speed of 2 Mbit/s. They also offer an Unlimited plan with 130 Mbit/s download speed with an upload of 10 Mbit/s.

Saudi Arabia

• The first IP service provided in Saudi Arabia were by Sahara Net back in 1994. Sahara Net was established in 1989 as a BBS and then became an ISP during the official launch for licenses by KACST.
• 7i solutions is the one of leading ISP provider in kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

1. STC

2. Mobily eLife

Postpaid

Prepaid

Singapore

In Singapore, Starhub offers eight residential cable and fibre broadband plans with unlimited data transfer:

For cable broadband plans, DOCSIS 3.0 modems (e.g. Motorola SB6100) are required to achieve speeds up to 100 Mbit/s. MaxOnline Ultimate users with DOCSIS 2.0 modems (e.g. Motorola SB5101) are limited to 32 Mbit/s.

Africa

Angola

As the only Cable internet provider in the country, TV Cabo Angola tariffs are astronomic even compared to neighboring Southern African countries.

Mozambique