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Archive for Thursday, October 28, 2004

J-W Staff Reports

October 28, 2004

Tapping into multimedia content through the Internet is about to get even faster for customers of Sunflower Broadband, as the Lawrence-based media company boosts its speeds for downloads.

Effective Monday, downloads on the company's basic high-speed residential service will go from 2 megabytes per second to 3 megabytes per second, said Patrick Knorr, the company's general manager. Premium high-speed residential service will offer downloads of up to 6 megabytes per second, up from 3 megabytes per second.

Only speeds -- not prices -- are changing, Knorr said.

"Sunflower Broadband's High-Speed Internet service always has been a good value," said Knorr, who also is director of strategic planning for The World Company, which owns Sunflower, the Journal-World and several weekly newspapers in northeast Kansas. "Now, for the same price, our subscribers will get the fastest Internet service around. That's tough to beat."

Download speeds for Sunflower's commercial high-speed Internet subscribers will be doubled, regardless of which package customers subscribe to.

Sunflower Broadband provides cable television and high-speed Internet services to residential and business customers in Lawrence, Eudora, Tonga-noxie, Basehor, Piper and parts of rural Douglas and Leavenworth counties. Telephone services also are available to customers in Lawrence.