At the end of 2016, Mediacom announced it would become the first major U.S. cable company to fully transition to the DOCSIS 3.1 platform, a new generation of broadband technology. In January 2017, Mediacom launched 1 Gbit/s internet service across its entire Iowa footprint and as a result, all of the nearly 1 million households in the more than 300 Iowa communities passed by Mediacom's Iowa network now have access to download speeds that are up to 40 times faster than the minimum broadband definition set by the FCC. In September 2020, Mediacom became the first U.S. cable operator to conduct a trial of the 10G platform in Ames, Iowa.