Comcast says by early 2010 it will be offering many cable Internet customers bandwidth up to 100 Mbps - and some markets may get it in 2008.

Speaking at the Merril Lynch U.S. Media Conference in London, Comcast senior VP of investor relations Marlene Dooner said the company plans to offer cable Internet customers bandwidth up to 100 Mbps in most of its markets by early 2010—and some 20 percent of its markets may have the service by the end of 2008. In a not-unrelated forecast, Dooner also says Comcast expects to have converted analog television channels to digital in most of its markets by 2010—enabling the company to reclaim bandwidth currently used by those video signals—and expects 20 percent of its markets converted to digital by the end of 2008.