BOISE - Subscribers to CableOne’s high speed Internet service are paying more to get online.

The company raised prices for its residential packages by $36 per year.  The fee increase pencils out to an extra $3.05 per month.

CableOne notified its customers of the change via a billing insert. The notice said the company has been working to increase the speeds of the service.

The most popular package – 3 mega bits per second service – now costs $43 per month, plus the cost of modem rental.

Cable television services are unaffected by the pricing change.

Qwest Communications offers a 1.5 MBPS service for $26.99, and 7 MBPS for $36.99 per month with special offers. Clearwire offers a wireless 2 MBPS service in the $30 range. Both Qwest and Clearwire also require the purchase or rental of a modem.