Not to be outdone by Hawaiian Telcom’s super fast internet service, Oceanic Time Warner Cable announced today that it is starting Road Runner Turbo Plus service.

The service will be the fastest available residential internet service available in the Hawaiian islands. The Road Runner Turbo Plus offers up to 15 megabits per second whereas Hawaiian Telcom’s fastest service available is 11 megabits per second.

The new service will cost subscribers $54.05 which is slightly higher than the $49.99 that Hawaiian Telcom charges for their fastest service. Although we don’t expect many people to need this faster service and from the comments in the Honolulu Advertiser article neither do Oceanics big shots, it is nice to see.

Reason being, as the service gets faster and faster, that will bring up the lower services offered and with the competition between the two companies, hopefully it will bring down the prices!

With Hawaiian Telcom now having the fastest internet available in Hawaii, they are stepping up one more time by providing over 100 wi-fi hot spots around the state. This is big news, because their wi-fi will be free to subscribers of Hawaiian Telcom’s internet service. Now you can take your laptop to one of the many locations to use the internet.

Some of the locations that provide this service are Ala Moana Center, Restaurant Row, Downtown Honolulu, and all Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf locations in Hawaii (Source: Honolulu Advertiser). Certain areas on Oahu will also receive the service, such as Kailua, Hawaii Kai, Manoa, Ewa Beach, and Pearl City. They also didn’t forget the neighbor islands as well, so they will provide service at Kapa’a on Kauai, Kona and Hilo on the Big Island, and Kahului in Maui.

Compared to Oceanic Cable, who offers only 40 locations around Oahu, Hawaiian Telcom is really upping the ante with the high speed internet customers.

I think Hawaiian Telcom is looking to better themselves, especially having very poor service ever since they took over Verizon as the phone and DSL provider in Oahu. So far, things seem to be going great for them, and for them to expand into Oceanic Time Warner’s market is a big step, since Oceanic has most of the high speed internet subscribers. With lower charges for internet, more free wi-fi locations, and having the fastest internet, Hawaiian Telcom might persude more than just a few subscribers.