VIRGINIA, USA: Cox Business customers are taking advantage of faster Internet service thanks to speed increases that took effect this week. Small and mid-sized business (SMB) customers will now benefit from higher upload and downloads speeds and experience PowerBoost capabilities allowing speeds as high as 25 Mbps at no additional cost.

Cox Business Internet customers will automatically be migrated to the new higher-speed service tiers.

"Cox Business Internet customers count on our network to link them to critical resources, key suppliers, remote work sites and valued clients, whenever and wherever they need to," said JD Myers, vice president of Cox Business in Northern Virginia. "Our new, faster speeds are another step forward in our continuing commitment to providing small and mid-sized businesses with the tools to help them increase efficiency and productivity, giving them the edge they need to win in the marketplace."

With the recent enhancements, Cox Business will deliver more speed at no additional cost. Cox Business Internet speeds changes are as follows:

• Old Speeds (Mbps) New Speeds (Mbps)
• 1.5 down / 384 up 2.0 down / 384 up
• 3.0 down / 1.0 up 5.0 down / 1.0 up
• 6.0 down / 2.0 up 10.0 down / 2.0 up
• 15.0 down / 2.0 up 20.0 down / 3.0 up

Last month, Cox Business launched Premium Online Back-up and Premium Security Suite, two value-added services designed to help customers protect their local network data. These new, managed solutions provide customers with anti-virus and anti-spyware protection, a firewall for intrusion detection, automatic data back-up for selected files and secure off-site data storage.

Cox also has a strong history as a trusted data services provider among business customers. Cox Business leads all providers of small and mid-size business data solutions in customer satisfaction, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2008 Major Provider Business Telecommunications Study(SM) released last month. In 2007, Cox became the first multiple system cable operator to enter the top tier of U.S. business Ethernet providers, according to Vertical Systems Group.