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Cable ONE is a United States
cable service provider and subsidiary of The Washington Post Company, functioning as its own self-contained corporation within its parent company. The company's name and current focus dates back to 1997; prior to that time the company was known as Post-Newsweek Cable. It is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona
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Cable ONE is the 10th largest cable provider in the USA with most subscribers residing in small rural communities in nineteen midwestern, southern, and western states. As of January 2009, about 699,000 subscribers receive basic service and about 230,000 receive digital video service from Cable ONE. The company offers broadband Internet to over 370,000 subscribers. In May 2006, Cable ONE began a system-by-system launch of its digital telephone service with currently about 94,000 subscribers. Cable ONE is the only major cable provider that maps subchannel numbers same as digital cable box channel numbers.
states including Alabama
, Arizona
, Arkansas
, Idaho
, Iowa
, Kansas
, Louisiana
, Minnesota
, Mississippi
, Missouri
, Nebraska
, New Mexico
, North Dakota
, Oklahoma
, Oregon
, Tennessee
, Texas
, South Dakota
, and Washington.
s were put in place to limit their customers' ability to transfer large amounts of internet data during "peak hours". This policy is enforced between the hours of 12:00 pm and midnight local time for Residential customers. Cable One Residential Standard customers (5Mbit/s down - 500Kbit/s up) who transfer over 2,250 MB (2.2 GB) downstream (or transfer over 225 MB upstream) will have their service throttled back to 2.5 Mbit/s down – 250 Kbit/s up (half-speed) from 4 p.m to midnight. Full speed will return at midnight. Residential Premium customers (10Mbit/s down - 1Mbit/s up) will also be throttled down to half speed if they exceed 4.5GB down or 450MB up during the noon to midnight time period. Residential Ultra customers (12Mbit/s down - 1.5Mbit/s up) will also be throttled down to half speed if they exceed 11GB down or 1,380MB up during the noon to midnight time period. This policy, called High Use is designed to limit unusually high bandwidth usage during "peak hours" and thus limit the possible negative impact to other customers. Excessive Use, defined as greater than 3GB (combined up and downloaded data) for the 5Mbit/s plan, per day, if done over half the days of the billing cycle (one month) can result in action taken to limit bandwidth use. For the 10Mbit/s plan, its 5GB a day combined up and downloaded data. The Excessive Use policy applies to a 24 hour time frame and is not affected by the "peak hours" of noon to midnight. See Cableone's Acceptable Use policy for more detail.
Business plans are also offered with greater speed and higher data/bandwidth caps.
Cable One has recently introduced a 50Mbit/s down plan that requires a one year contract. This plan has a monthly data cap of 50GB. For each additional GB, they charge $0.50.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
cable service provider and subsidiary of The Washington Post Company, functioning as its own self-contained corporation within its parent company. The company's name and current focus dates back to 1997; prior to that time the company was known as Post-Newsweek Cable. It is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona
Phoenix, Arizona
Phoenix is the capital, and largest city, of the U.S. state of Arizona, as well as the sixth most populated city in the United States. Phoenix is home to 1,445,632 people according to the official 2010 U.S. Census Bureau data...
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Cable ONE is the 10th largest cable provider in the USA with most subscribers residing in small rural communities in nineteen midwestern, southern, and western states. As of January 2009, about 699,000 subscribers receive basic service and about 230,000 receive digital video service from Cable ONE. The company offers broadband Internet to over 370,000 subscribers. In May 2006, Cable ONE began a system-by-system launch of its digital telephone service with currently about 94,000 subscribers. Cable ONE is the only major cable provider that maps subchannel numbers same as digital cable box channel numbers.
Service areas
Cable ONE currently provides service in 19 U.S.United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
states including Alabama
Alabama
Alabama is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States. It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west. Alabama ranks 30th in total land area and ranks second in the size of its inland...
, Arizona
Arizona
Arizona ; is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States. It is also part of the western United States and the mountain west. The capital and largest city is Phoenix...
, Arkansas
Arkansas
Arkansas is a state located in the southern region of the United States. Its name is an Algonquian name of the Quapaw Indians. Arkansas shares borders with six states , and its eastern border is largely defined by the Mississippi River...
, Idaho
Idaho
Idaho is a state in the Rocky Mountain area of the United States. The state's largest city and capital is Boise. Residents are called "Idahoans". Idaho was admitted to the Union on July 3, 1890, as the 43rd state....
, Iowa
Iowa
Iowa is a state located in the Midwestern United States, an area often referred to as the "American Heartland". It derives its name from the Ioway people, one of the many American Indian tribes that occupied the state at the time of European exploration. Iowa was a part of the French colony of New...
, Kansas
Kansas
Kansas is a US state located in the Midwestern United States. It is named after the Kansas River which flows through it, which in turn was named after the Kansa Native American tribe, which inhabited the area. The tribe's name is often said to mean "people of the wind" or "people of the south...
, Louisiana
Louisiana
Louisiana is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America. Its capital is Baton Rouge and largest city is New Orleans. Louisiana is the only state in the U.S. with political subdivisions termed parishes, which are local governments equivalent to counties...
, Minnesota
Minnesota
Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...
, Mississippi
Mississippi
Mississippi is a U.S. state located in the Southern United States. Jackson is the state capital and largest city. The name of the state derives from the Mississippi River, which flows along its western boundary, whose name comes from the Ojibwe word misi-ziibi...
, Missouri
Missouri
Missouri is a US state located in the Midwestern United States, bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. With a 2010 population of 5,988,927, Missouri is the 18th most populous state in the nation and the fifth most populous in the Midwest. It...
, Nebraska
Nebraska
Nebraska is a state on the Great Plains of the Midwestern United States. The state's capital is Lincoln and its largest city is Omaha, on the Missouri River....
, New Mexico
New Mexico
New Mexico is a state located in the southwest and western regions of the United States. New Mexico is also usually considered one of the Mountain States. With a population density of 16 per square mile, New Mexico is the sixth-most sparsely inhabited U.S...
, North Dakota
North Dakota
North Dakota is a state located in the Midwestern region of the United States of America, along the Canadian border. The state is bordered by Canada to the north, Minnesota to the east, South Dakota to the south and Montana to the west. North Dakota is the 19th-largest state by area in the U.S....
, Oklahoma
Oklahoma
Oklahoma is a state located in the South Central region of the United States of America. With an estimated 3,751,351 residents as of the 2010 census and a land area of 68,667 square miles , Oklahoma is the 28th most populous and 20th-largest state...
, Oregon
Oregon
Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is located on the Pacific coast, with Washington to the north, California to the south, Nevada on the southeast and Idaho to the east. The Columbia and Snake rivers delineate much of Oregon's northern and eastern...
, Tennessee
Tennessee
Tennessee is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States. It has a population of 6,346,105, making it the nation's 17th-largest state by population, and covers , making it the 36th-largest by total land area...
, Texas
Texas
Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...
, South Dakota
South Dakota
South Dakota is a state located in the Midwestern region of the United States. It is named after the Lakota and Dakota Sioux American Indian tribes. Once a part of Dakota Territory, South Dakota became a state on November 2, 1889. The state has an area of and an estimated population of just over...
, and Washington.
Cable Internet service
Beginning in 2007, Cable One introduced a new policy toward their internet service plans. Consumption caps or bandwidth capBandwidth cap
A bandwidth cap, also known as a bit cap, limits the transfer of a specified amount of data over a period of time. Internet service providers commonly apply a cap when a channel intended to be shared by many users becomes overloaded, or may be overloaded, by a few users...
s were put in place to limit their customers' ability to transfer large amounts of internet data during "peak hours". This policy is enforced between the hours of 12:00 pm and midnight local time for Residential customers. Cable One Residential Standard customers (5Mbit/s down - 500Kbit/s up) who transfer over 2,250 MB (2.2 GB) downstream (or transfer over 225 MB upstream) will have their service throttled back to 2.5 Mbit/s down – 250 Kbit/s up (half-speed) from 4 p.m to midnight. Full speed will return at midnight. Residential Premium customers (10Mbit/s down - 1Mbit/s up) will also be throttled down to half speed if they exceed 4.5GB down or 450MB up during the noon to midnight time period. Residential Ultra customers (12Mbit/s down - 1.5Mbit/s up) will also be throttled down to half speed if they exceed 11GB down or 1,380MB up during the noon to midnight time period. This policy, called High Use is designed to limit unusually high bandwidth usage during "peak hours" and thus limit the possible negative impact to other customers. Excessive Use, defined as greater than 3GB (combined up and downloaded data) for the 5Mbit/s plan, per day, if done over half the days of the billing cycle (one month) can result in action taken to limit bandwidth use. For the 10Mbit/s plan, its 5GB a day combined up and downloaded data. The Excessive Use policy applies to a 24 hour time frame and is not affected by the "peak hours" of noon to midnight. See Cableone's Acceptable Use policy for more detail.
Business plans are also offered with greater speed and higher data/bandwidth caps.
Cable One has recently introduced a 50Mbit/s down plan that requires a one year contract. This plan has a monthly data cap of 50GB. For each additional GB, they charge $0.50.