Spectrum Frequently Asked Questions

Is Spectrum Good?

Spectrum, the internet service from Charter Communications, has brought a number of improvements to an already expansive suite of services. Asking the question "Is Spectrum good?" will give you an obvious answer: yes. It's really time to ask yourself if Spectrum is the best, when it comes to cable TV in HD, high speed internet, and digital voice home phone services, and the answer to that may be a resounding yes as well.

Spectrum's suite of services include Spectrum TV, Spectrum's cable TV in HD service, Spectrum Internet offering up to 1 Gbps in some areas for download speeds, and Spectrum Voice unlimited local and long distance home phone service. Spectrum TV and Spectrum Internet are available on their own as standalone services, and all three services are available as part of package deals called Double Plays (featuring two services at one low monthly price) and Triple Plays (all three services for the most savings per service, per month). A Spectrum Triple Play featuring TV, Internet and Phone is a whole-home solution at the best value offered by the company.

Let's run down the services, starting with Spectrum TV. Spectrum TV is available to stream or watch. Spectrum TV offers all your local channels, regional sports networks, and popular cable favorites, with the most channels in HD at the low-tier price point of any provider around. All tiers come with Spectrum On Demand and the Spectrum TV App.

Spectrum Internet features download speeds as high as 1 Gbps. With speeds like these, you can play games online without lagging, watch video online without buffering, and stream and download your favorite music without waiting. Spectrum's connection is always fast, and always on.

Spectrum's last service offering is Voice, a digital home phone service offering landline phone for your home featuring unlimited local and long distance talk throughout the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, Guam and the US Virgin Islands. What does unlimited talk mean? It means that your bill is the same low price each month, no matter how many calls you make, allowing you to stay in touch with people across town and across the country in an affordable way. Spectrum Voice also features plenty of great calling features, including Voicemail, Caller ID, Call Waiting and many more.

Is Spectrum good? Absolutely. Is Spectrum the best? It just might be.

What is Spectrum?

If you're looking to the answer to the question, "What is Spectrum?" you've come to the right place. Here at bundleinternet.com, we provide Spectrum services to all Spectrum service areas, giving you access to the latest in HD cable television, the fastest high-speed internet, and the most crystal clear and affordable digital voice home phone package.

Spectrum services are available on their own (TV and Internet only — Spectrum Voice is only available as part of a bundle) or as two- and three-service bundles giving you multiple services at one low monthly price with only one bill to remember. Spectrum Double Play packages that are available are Spectrum TV and Internet, Spectrum TV and Phone, and Spectrum Phone and Internet. Spectrum Triple Play bundles are the way to go, though, for the most savings per month, per service, giving you TV, Internet and Voice with only one bill to remember.

Keep yourself up to date with Spectrum. You'll be getting the best services at the best prices, including a large HD cable TV lineup, fast high speed internet, and a whole lot more.

Is Spectrum Voice VoIP?

Spectrum Voice is the industry leading home phone landline service offered by Charter Communications, bringing unlimited local and long distance talk to homes throughout the United States, with unlimited calling available to the rest of the United States, as well as Canada, Puerto Rico, Guam and the US Virgin Islands. While Spectrum Voice is a landline service, offering all of the features of the landline phone systems you're used to, it operates using VoIP (Voiceover IP), but unlike other VoIP providers, it does not require a high speed internet connection in the home, and can be installed via any in-home phone jack.

IP (internet protocol) is used to transport your calls, but the calls go over Spectrum's private network, so your private calls never touch the public internet, remaining secure and protected. Even if you don't have Spectrum Internet, also available from Spectrum, you can have Spectrum phone services in your home.

There are limits to how you can get Spectrum Voice in your home, however. Spectrum Voice is not available as a standalone service for new customers, meaning it must be bundled with either Spectrum TV or Spectrum Internet, or both services in one three-service bundle. Spectrum Voice's value is increased by these other services, however, as purchasing a multi-service bundle lowers the cost of each service in the bundle per month, with the most value coming with Spectrum Triple Play featuring Spectrum TV, Spectrum Internet, and Spectrum Voice home phone.

Included in the Spectrum Voice service are a number of popular calling features, including:

• Voicemail
• Call Waiting
• Caller ID
• Call Waiting with Caller ID
• Custom Rings
• Call Screening
• Anonymous Call Blocking
• Selective Call Acceptance
• Speed Dial 8
• Variable Call Forwarding — Forward all of your phone calls to any number within the US when you're away.
• Selective Call Forwarding — Choose up to 12 phone numbers whose calls will be forwarded to any phone in the US when you're away.

These features add value to an already great service that saves you up to 35% off your typical phone company bill by allowing you to make as many calls as you want within the calling area, unlimited, for the same price each month. Another benefit is that you know what your bill will be each month, so you can plan out your expenses without having to worry about fluctuating phone costs. Contact bundleinternet.com today to take advantage of Spectrum Voice as part of a Double Play bundle or Triple Play bundle today.

Is Spectrum the Same as Charter?

Yes, Spectrum is the internet, TV and phone services provider by Charter Communications.

Who is Charter Communications?

Charter Communications, founded and incorporated in St. Louis, MO in 1993, is one of the largest cable TV providers in the United States, offering services in the Midwest, east coast, southern and western regions of the USA. What began with former executives at Cencom Cable Television moving to start their own company is now an empire offering far more than just cable TV services, with Spectrum providing the fastest high speed internet in the business and unlimited local and long distance talk via Spectrum Voice home phone along with the most HD cable TV channels available from any provider.

After being founded in 1993, Charter began to acquire territory and other companies, including Crown Media and Cable South in 1995, Marcus Cable in 1998, and many more. In 1997 Charter teamed with Earthlink to begin providing high speed internet through cable modems, first in California, then throughout the Charter service areas across the country.

Charter went public in November of 1999, at the time servicing almost four million customers, and also acquired or merged with a number of companies to further consolidate and expand its service area. In the past decade-plus, Charter has grown from servicing four million customers to about 30.5 million people in twenty-nine states, with California, Missouri, Texas and Michigan as stronghold areas for the company.

At this point, after some difficulties in the late oughts, Spectrum is again at the head of the cable TV, high speed internet, and digital phone pack, poised to become the second largest provider in the United States after Comcast.

Spectrum TV and Spectrum Internet are available as standalone services, as part of a double play bundle combined with one another or with Spectrum Voice, or as part of a three-service bundle with all three available services on one low monthly bill. Spectrum Voice, not available as a standalone service, must be purchased as part of a bundle with Spectrum TV, Internet, or both services. No matter what combination of services you choose, you'll get a great deal on the most HD cable TV channels, the fastest high-speed internet, and the most affordable unlimited local and long distance landline home phone service. Spectrum TV is also available.

Is Spectrum Available in My Area?

Charter Communications offers cable TV in HD, high speed internet, and digital landline home phone services in more than 40 states, with more areas to come. In all Spectrum areas, Spectrum is either already in place or on the way, with improved channel lineups for cable TV featuring even more HD channels than ever before, Spectrum Internet upping your download speeds to up to 1 Gbps, and Spectrum Voice continuing to offer the best and most affordable unlimited local and long distance landline phone service in the business.

If you are not sure you're in a Spectrum area, you can enter your zip code to find out if Spectrum service is available for you. If it is, that means you're either getting Spectrum right away when you sign up, or an automatic upgrade when it becomes available in your area with no action needed on your part, giving you the latest update to what was already the biggest and best cable TV, high speed internet and home phone package around.

What is Spectrum On Demand?

Spectrum TV, at every price point, gives customers the biggest HD cable TV channel selection around, and Spectrum On Demand only adds to the Spectrum TV HD lineup with thousands of programming options in high definition.

So what is Spectrum On Demand? Spectrum On Demand is pretty much just what it sounds like—using your remote control, you can search through programs to watch at the touch of a button, most of them free of charge. This includes shows from the channels you subscribe to—in case you can't watch them at their original air time and date—plenty of Hollywood films, documentaries, live concert events, pay-per-view sporting events like top-tier boxing events, UFC events, WWE events and more. On Demand is easy to use and allows you to pause and rewind your programming, as well as watching quite a bit of it without distracting commercials.

To get Spectrum On Demand, you must subscribe to Spectrum TV, and so you get all those benefits as well. With Spectrum TV you'll have a big HD cable TV lineup at every price point.

What is Spectrum TV?

Spectrum TV is Spectrum's TV service, available throughout the Spectrum footprint. Customers can choose to stream or sign up for a typical cable TV plan.

Spectrum TV is a great deal on its own, but you get even more value when you combine it with Spectrum Internet (featuring download speeds of up to 1 Gbps), Spectrum Voice (giving you unlimited local and long distance landline home phone services saving you a third off your typical phone company bill) or both services. Contact bundleinternet.com to learn more about a Spectrum Double Play or Spectrum Triple Play deal today.

What is Spectrum Internet?

Spectrum Internet is the internet service provider from Charter Communications. Spectrum Internet provides speeds up to 1 Gbps. Spectrum Internet is cable internet, meaning that unlike satellite internet it is not dependent on good weather to work properly. Spectrum Internet's cable high speed internet service allows you to play games online without timing out, stream music and movies without buffering or interruption, even connect multiple users in your home without knocking out the always-on connection. Spectrum Internet also comes with a couple of other features such as Charter Security Suite.

Security Suite comes free of charge with Spectrum Internet, and is a suite of security software to protect your home network from viruses, spyware, hackers and other dangers of the online world. Staying connected all the time means you want to protect your home desktop and laptop computers, and Charter Security Suite, only available with Spectrum Internet, enables you to do just that.

Spectrum Internet is a great value on its own — as its status as one of the country's fastest ISPs can attest — but it's an even greater value when you pair it with Spectrum TV or Spectrum Voice to reduce the price of both services per month, or get all three services for the greatest value per month, per service overall. Spectrum Double Play (Internet and TV, Internet and Voice) and Triple Play (Spectrum TV, Internet and Voice) make it so that you only have one bill to remember for as many as three great services, while reducing your cost overall. Get started with one or all three of our great services by contacting bundleinternet.com today.

What is Spectrum Internet Speed?

Spectrum, the internet service from Charter Communications and one of the fastest internet services in the nation, has download speeds up to 1 Gbps in most areas.

Spectrum Internet, cable high speed internet that blows the competition out of the water, provides speeds for downloads and uploads that increase your in-home internet functionality exponentially. With Spectrum Internet, you can stream music, movies and TV shows online without lagging or buffering, even connect to a smart TV for instant access to online programming. You can connect to multiple devices in your home without slowing down the connection—including the aforementioned smart TVs, desktop computers, laptops, tablets and cell phones—and make everyone in the house happy. You can play games online without worrying about timing out of your connection. These speeds make everything easier about being online.

Spectrum Internet is a great value on its own, with speeds that are impossible to match with other residential high speed internet services, but you get even more value when you combine in a Double Play with Spectrum TV or Spectrum Voice, or a Triple Play Bundle giving you all three services with only one bill to remember at a great low price that gives you the most savings, per service, per month.

Get started with Spectrum services by calling bundleinternet.com today.

When is Spectrum Coming to My Area?

To find out when Spectrum, with cable TV, high speed internet, and digital voice home phone service, becomes available in your area, or to see if it's available already, enter your zip code or call the phone number on the page.

How Fast is 1 Gbps?

Spectrum has plans available up to 1 Gbps. This speed is more than fast enough to do essentially any online task with ease.

Once you hit 1 Gbps, everything changes. You can do a whole lot more of what you love to do online, right in your home. Connect multiple users, on multiple devices, including desktop and laptop computers, phones, tablets, other mobile devices, and even smart TVs for accessing streaming programming from apps like Netflix and Hulu. You can play games online without worrying about lagging or buffering, stream music, movies and TV without timing out or interruption, shop online with ease, all while continuing to surf the Web with an uninterrupted connection you won't believe—and then you'll be unable to believe you ever lived without it.

Spectrum Internet is a great value on its own, but you save even more on these great speeds when you combine in a multi-service bundle with Spectrum Voice, our digital home phone service, or Spectrum TV, our cable TV in HD service. You get the biggest savings when you combine with both services in a Triple Play Bundle, giving you three great services at one low monthly price, with only one convenient bill to remember.