About: Florida

The state capital of Florida is Tallahassee. It was named by Spanish Ponce de Leon who arrived in search for the mythical "fountain of youth. " Florida is known for its agriculture and tourism industries. Its agricultural products include oranges, grapefruit and other citrus fruits, potatoes, melons, strawberries, sugar cane, peanuts, dairy products and cattle. Major tourist destinations include Miami Beach, Palm Beach, St. Augustine, Daytona Beach, Key West and Orlando. Florida is home to the NASA Kennedy Space Center and Disney World. Famous residents include actor Burt Reynolds (Deliverance, Smokey and the Bandit), Charles and John who are circus entrepreneurs known as the Ringling Brothers, singer Jim Morrison, and actor Johnny Depp (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Edward Scissorhands).

Population: 15982378
State Capital: Tallahassee
Largest Cities: Jacksonville, Tampa, Miami, Orlando, St Petersburg, Ft Lauderdale, Ft Myers
Governor: Rick Scott

Bright House Networks Internet in Florida

When you have Bright House Networks High Speed Internet, you have an open outlet to the world. While you sit in your house or your office in Central Florida, your computer will take you across the world and into cultures you’ve only heard about. It truly is a worldwide web, and this can be your portal.

And if super-fast Internet speed is needed, then sign up for Powerboost, which comes to those with the Turbo package.

Bright House Networks has it all!
Just for signing up with Bright House Networks, you’ll get extra options that many Internet customers don’t have available to them. You'll get great security options, as well as better parental control. Those options are FREE, of course!

Bright House Networks customers also get to use the online entertainment options in the Video Store. Thousands of full-length movies are just a few clicks away. And if movies aren’t you thing, you can keep in tune with the Video Channel, which plays video clips from Associated Press and CNN – all for free!

Music fans will also benefit from the Internet Radio service, which plays over 50 commercial-free, CD-quality music through your browser. Fans of all sorts of genres will be happy to listen to channels that play Classic Rock, Rock, Pop, Jazz, Latin, Inspirational, Classical and Country.

Work on staying connected at work
More companies are building out their own websites and intranets enabling their customers and employees the chance to engage online rather than having to physically visit the brick and mortar locations. But people need fast Internet access – especially if they plan on working online. Time is money! And that would normally translate to "High Speed Internet means high cost," but not when you’re dealing with Bright House Networks. You'll get fast access and great customer service for a low price.

Central Florida is home to some large corporations, including Walt Disney World, Lockheed-Martin, GE, AT&T, Darden Restaurants (parent company of Red Lobster and Olive Garden) in Orlando. And in Tampa-St. Pete area, the largest cluster of financial services reside, with Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and Raymond James Financial, among others. As a matter of fact, many of the state's business and information services reside in the Tampa Bay area. With that many large corporations in the area, a lot of work has to be taken care of online, and that’s where Bright House Networks comes in for residential areas.

Get in the game!
Fans of the local sports teams, like the Orlando Magic, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Tampa Bay Lightning and Tampa Bay Rays, will certainly want to keep up to date with scores, news and transactions. Bright House Networks Internet gives you fast access to sites like CBSSports,com, ESPN.com, and Yahoo! Sports. You'll even be able to watch a lot of live sporting events every year by visiting ESPN3.com. And the millions of people that play fantasy baseball, fantasy football, fantasy basketball and fantasy hockey will be more than happy with their Internet speed when they’re searching for news on their players or setting their lineups. And they’ll never have to worry about their connections during the all-important drafts!

Online shopping gets even easier
And it only stands to reason that the center of the Sunshine State is a great place for shopping – for both locals and tourists -- for swimwear and tropical clothing. Bright House Networks makes life easier by making your online shopping experience much smoother, without timing out and dropping connections.

Higher Internet speeds for higher learning
Students that need a super-fast Internet connection are happy to have the services of Bright House Networks Lightning and Turbo. Central Florida has several colleges in the area, including UCF (University of Central Florida), USF (University of South Florida), University of Florida, University of Tampa, New College of Florida in Sarasota, Hillsborough Community College, Polk State College, Santa Fe College, St. Petersburg College and Valencia College. Some students watch online videos for their courses, so having the choice of speeds up to 40 Mbps means a lot!

And that's not all!
Customers that use Bright House Networks are able to get up to 25 different email accounts, and they can set up their own wireless home network so your whole family can get online with just one single connection. And that's at no additional cost!

You’ll also get great Internet security, as you’ll be able to use advanced features like spam blockers, anti-virus protection and a personal firewall. Of course, you’ll also be able to check the weather all over Central Florida by logging into your local news sites or going directly to Weather.com. Remember that this area is known as the lightning capital of the United States, due to the number of lightning storms in Hillsborough County. That also explains why the NHL team there is called the Tampa Bay Lightning.