Comcast offers Utah customers 1-Gig internet

Comcast is launching its new 1-gigabit-per-second internet service April 26, making Utah the first where the cable company has rolled out the super fast speeds to all its customers in a single state. Comcast says anyone in its service area now may order the service, which the company is offering in competition with CenturyLink and Google Fiber, whose comparable services are available only in certain areas.

While Comcast has been testing the service in other areas, "Utah is the first state that gets it rolled out as a whole throughout our entire footprint," said Leslie Oliver, director of external affairs. Many of Comcast's current internet customers receive a 150-megabit service now. It can download a two-hour movie in about a minute and a half. With the 1-gigabit service, that same movie will take eight seconds to download.