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Comcast Corp. said Thursday it has made Minnesota's Twin Cities region the first market to get its new high-speed Internet service, which enables users to download data at up to 50 megabits per second and upload data at up to 5 mbps.

PHILADELPHIA – Comcast Corporation (Nasdaq: CMCSK, CMCSA), the nation's leading provider of entertainment, information and communications, is testing a 100 Gigabit/sec optical solution from Nortel* (NYSE/TSX: NT). Comcast** is conducting this test at the 71st meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) conference which it is hosting in Philadelphia.