Comcast 2 Gig Pricing Arrives And The Install Cost Is a Doozy -

A new Comcast website has finally revealed pricing for the company's heavily promoted two gigabit offering. According to the freshly unveiled Comcast website for the "Gigabit Pro" product, the company's standard pricing for the symmetrical two gigabit service will be $300 a month. That pricing doesn't include a whopping $500 installation and activation fees, or the other surcharges Comcast applies to the connection post sale.

Fortunately, Comcast says they'll be offering a $159 per month early promotional price for the service if users agree to a two-year contract. Update: this price is apparently only being offered in one small area and only if users sign a three year contract.

Comcast announced back in April that it would be offering two gigabit ("Gigabit Pro") service to 18 million homes by the end of the year. The company however had gone out of its way to avoid discussing what they hoped to charge; the steep $1000 in installation fees likely being the major reason why.

There's also an unspecified early termination fee, which if Comcast's existing 505 Mbps tier is any indication, will also be well over a thousand dollars.

To get the service, Comcast's website says customers must "generally live within a third of a mile of our fiber network in the cities where Gigabit Pro is offered." The company says that installation of the new tier may take "six to eight weeks" to complete. It's unclear if the company plans to reduce the speedy' service's price in markets where Comcast faces pressure from municipal broadband or Google Fiber.
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