ISPs have turned their attention towards providing gigabit internet service. And as Google Fiber continues to be a success, Comcast will finally roll out a gigabit service of its own. Comcast has announced according to The Verge that it has set up its very first customer to its "1000 Mbps down and up service" over at Philadelphia.

Comcast is using a different style than Google in providing 1000 Mbps down and up to the home of its customers. Instead of installing new fiber connections to the new customers' houses, they will be using the new DOCSIS 3.1 standard which works over the existent "hybrid fiber coaxial" networks. That's cheaper to roll out compared to the one that uses fiber connection. Once the system has been installed, Comcast can connect almost all of its customers within range to that service.

To get that gigabit connection, customers will first have to receive a new hardware from Comcast which will also have to deploy new software to the nodes that serve the customers' neighborhoods.

Comcast also said that by the end of 2016, the gigabit service will be already available to several parts of the country. There's no announcement yet regarding the price of the service, but it is expected to be cheaper than the $300-monthly 2Gbps services that they currently have. It uses a different kind of technology. That service is available to about 18 million customers who are "within close proximity" to Comcast's fiber network. It only a matter of time until people from around that area get to enjoy that kind of internet speed at a more affordable price.