Qwest offers 20 Mbit DSL in 23 new cities
Qwest Communications International Inc. on Thursday introduced DSL plans with faster download speeds, including one that is the fastest DSL service from a major U.S. phone company. Qwest is charging $104.99 per month for a download speed of 20 megabits per second. For 12 mbps, it is charging $51.99 per month. The prices are $5 lower when combined with local phone service. The plans will be available in 23 of Qwest’s top markets, the company said. By the end of the year, they will be available to 2 million customers. Download speeds on DSL, or Digital Subscriber Lines, from other companies generally top out at 10 or 12 megabits per second. L
ike Qwest’s plans, those speeds are only available in some areas, where the local phone company has drawn optical fiber closer to homes to shorten the distance the signal is carried by copper phone lines. Qwest said it is committed to spending up to $300 million to upgrade its network by drawing fiber into neighborhoods. Verizon Communications Inc. has chosen a different route, drawing fiber all the way to customers’ homes. While its fastest DSL service provides 7 mbps downloads, its fiber Internet service clocks in at 50 mbps. Cable companies also have been boosting their speeds. Earlier this month, Comcast Corp. introduced 50 mbps service for $150 per month in Minnesota’s Twin Cities region, where Qwest is the dominant phone company. A check on Qwest’s Web site indicated that the 12 and 20 megabit services are available in Minneapolis.
Source: AP
Holy that is expensive. You get 25 mb for only about 70 dollars here in switzerland …. i think 105 dollars per month is a whole lot for a normally paid american ….
sounds like a good alternative to FIOS
thats pretty expensive for 20mbit
Expensive, cheaper here ein euroland.
$30 for 20/20mbit here, who would pay over $100 for dsl?
“Expensive, cheaper here ein euroland.”
and that means something! (except if you live in sweden i guess)
optimum online is 33 mbits for about 40 bucks a month.
great for torrents too, because the upload speed is 5 mbits.
Hey I have fibre with 50 up/down for 35 euro incl telephone so this sounds expensive to me.
Believe it or not, come to France for cheap Internet access. Here I am stuck in Paris for a coupla years (which ain’t that bad, in point of fact) and I’m paying 20€/mo (approx $28) for a 30MB service from Numéricable. If you take a regular DSL (actually ADSL here) service from Free (tjat’s the company name) or Club-Internet or similar with unlimited land line telephony to all of Europe, US, Canada and some others, plus over 100 TV channels (basic service) … you pay just 30€/mo - not much more than $40 at todays exchange rates (Jees, the euro is expensive!!!).
Seems the froggies are doing one or two things right
Let me tell you a little about Qwest ,
They suck and i tell you why , they want you to sign a contract , they break their own contract by raising the price .. their news server is one of the worst ,
I rather by a plan at Starbucks and dragg my arse everyday to it
if qwest is trying to compete or do something good they should lower that price to 1/2 then we talking
and only then they have a shot of doing some business
Here in Sweden you can get ADSL 24/1 for around 300 SEK (that´s about 50 USD or 32 EUR).
16 mbit down (1mbitup) for 25€/month in Germany. And you can download 100s of Gigs per month.
believe it or not that’s really not bad. i’m from south africa the cheapest adsl connection is approx. $40 for 384k with a 1 gig cap. the fastest is 4 mbit with a 3 gig cap for $80. so if you guys think your’ll got it bad, think again.
@ona
here in canada, what you are complaining about is “business as usual” for our bull$hit telcos. In the US, i believe its AT&T that dominates and suffocates the market
Wow, thats just insane!! 100$? i pay 40€ (62.6$) for my 25Mbit DSL with unlimited downloads, and this is here in Portugal were nothing is cheap.
So does this sound right to you guys in terms of cost/MB (least expensive to most):
Europe < Japan < US < Canada < Africa < Middle East < rest of Asia
What about South America?
@Osterwelle
Believe me the price is perfect if considering the situation in Saudi where a 1MB costs $122!!!
Stop moaning about everything you people!
Here in South Africa, its about 1200 Rand for a 1 megabit unshaped, uncapped ADSL line…. thats about 170 US Dollars!!
stupid news, why don’t you post a ISP’s news from some other country in europe too? oh, i know, because you are american right?
…i would understand if it was something important or surprising.. but this?
COX here has a 12Mbit line with premium cable, and phone included for around $100. The data line alone costs $44 for a 7MBit-but….I dont even think it goes above 12Mbit here for most (practical) residential applications…*unfortunately*…..but it seems quest might grab some more customers in cities like mine where the next step up is a OC3 or whatever
Wow… wtf? It’s like even more expensive than in my country…
(20MBit is the fastest for general public use, at about 20E… I think). Of course, I’m speaking here of the best price/speed package ratio from ONE of the providers. Otherwise we’d still suck. =))
In the UK, I pay £18 ($36)/month for a 24MB/1.3MB line with unlimited transfer and no throttling/traffic shaping.
Damn, I thought US was more advanced in internet access by now.. We get 24Mbit’s for 62 dollars here in portugal :F
Here in Italy 20M/512Kb 20€uro/month, about 30USD, no limits, no p2p filter…
I have DSL 16000 and it costs 65 € but it`s with the whole mobil stuff so you can call in germany and 10 other countries or something like this 4 free.
Now i`m waiting for DSL 50000
In Slovenia I have 10 Mbps down/4 Mbps up for 31€ and you can get 60 Mbps / 25 Mbps for 76 €. http://www.t-2.net/?AUID=4DE65010D3A938010BC6
lol in my country (mexico) is more expensive i have 2mbps/256kbps and it cost 50 dls 0,0
here in Finland 100/10mbit is around 50E and its about 78 USD
Move to New York
Download 15 megabits (50 bucks)
2 upload mpbs
Download 30 mpbs (65 bucks)
The tech info
http://www.broadbandinfo.com/news/cablevision-optimum-online-boost.html
Poland: 20/2mbit for about 70$
not available in any place that matters
35 euro from greece for adsl 24mbit/1mbit and free phone calls to all europe, usa..
Yeah Comcast 50mps, you’ll only be able to get service about 6 hours a day. That company sucks!
sheez.. do they give a free tube of vaseline with that dsl package?
we pay 30 euros in france for dsl up to 25Mbps.. and they’re starting to roll out FTH(fiber) and they sell it for for the same price.. 30euros…
I forgot to add the packages include free call in all europe and north-America as well as some countries in Asia like japan or China
lol america doesnt have broadband, they have slowband
I have 10mps for 50 a month. Still very expensive!
I live in sweden and I got 100mbit for $50 / month
€20 for 20/15 mb in the netherlands.
Actually there is a name for this service… It’s called Fiber to the Node… I work for a 3rd party ISP and they’ve actually cut some of our 3-7 meg customers… they no longer allow 3rd party ISP’s to have 3-7 meg customers in certain area’s… I am one of those 3-7 meg customers, so if I get switched I’m gonna be pleanty unhappy.
Agree w/Ona, Qwest smokes balls. I have their 7MB DSL service which is the fastest you can get where I live. It never delivers even close to that speed and to top it off they have targeted me as a high-impact user and limit my access to what I HAVE ALREADY PAID THEM FOR with a contract, no less! Now I’m hoping they’ll shut me off so I can get out of the contract and give my money to someone else. Not Comcrap, though
@16 You’re forgetting Australia!
I’m on 24/4 Mbps ADSL for AUD60 (about US$46) so this isn’t really news to us.
hey you all are quiet lucky, we pay 40$ for bloody 256kbps in India and for plans like 1mbps u end up paying 100$ with limit gbs such a pain..ooh
What’s the point of having speeds like that when soon you won’t be able to dl anything of any worth?
USA people….
FIOS is a piece of doo doo. You pay 179 bucks if you want 30 mbits, whereas optimum online with boost gives you a slightly higher speed for 40-60 bucks depending on the package.
@1 Just as a friendly reminder, though - Here in the US, we aren’t taxed out the wazoo.
You’re lucky with these speeds with unlimited downloads unlike here in Australia I pay how much I download.
wow! that’s expensive! You get 24MB speed, plus FREE unlimited national and international calls to 16 countries, including 14 EU, the USA and Canada for €39,90 a month here in Portugal. Oh! And that comes bundled with 25 digital quality tv channels - FREE, of course. LOL
u guys are lucky herein india its very expensive i get 1 mbps uncapped download with 512kbps upload for roughly around 100$ per month from airtel
sorry its 50 dollars i supposed to write
I remember like 10 years ago Con Edison in NYC (an electric service provider down there) were talking about providing internet tru their lines ( that would’ve been equal to Fiber Optics)
I am not sure but it never took off the companies monopolizing the internet cable market and DSL (mostly ATT) and also FCC fought against it
what i am trying to say is politicians and lobbyists are corrupted
Thats why USA is so backwards when it comes to speed and affordable prices
p.s. Qwest is one of the worst , try dslreports for tons of bad reviews
I live in the good old US of A near DC in northern Virginia. For a whopping $45 per month I get DSL @ 768k from Slorizon (aka Veriz*n). This is all that is avaliable to me I can not choose any other provider… no cable or otherwise is avaliable. Can we say monopoly… or should we say opression. Guess I am lucky to have “high speed” internet at all. And NO, you do not get what you pay for considering that the service is down for 15~20mins atleast once a day. ;(
Jeasus, it sounds like US is falling behind when it comes to high speed internet access. Expensive and, according to the comments, unavailable.
As so many have stated above, 24Mbit in Europe costs a fraction of that and seems to have far greater coverage.
I live in sweden and here i pay around 50$ for 100/10. So move here now
India sucks big time…… i have got 256kbps for $20…and 1 Mbps for arnd $60…i was in Paris some time back and saw the public Wifi…giving me download speeds of arnd 500k…for free
hope all these are in india soon….
@19
Wtf! If you don’t want to hear/read about it then don’t. Maybe there aren’t any more releases today; so then maybe the only news is this. Personally i wouldn’t mind knowing about this cause downloading stuff (like what is posting on this site) involves the internet. Which you might need to know the price and speed of your connection or a future one you may want to change to.
anything better than roadrunner in NC?
Australia: my connection is Cable 20MB/256k for $130USD a month and thats with a 60gig download cap then I am charged 30c a meg there after.
2/512Mbps for $30 in thailand, 5Mbps is maximum for $50-60
I Could get 100/10mbit only 45€/month. In Pori finland.
But I dont need that fast internet. I have 10/10mbit for 34,90€/month
is it ftth?
alot of people in us is saying some crazy prices i see,
in my area my local cable company offering 20 meg server for 65.99 which is amazing for usa!! there 15 meg server is 50
so im comparing to other countries looks like in my area we have pretty good pricing no caps nothing full service i dont mind paying 65 bucks for unlimited full speed service
@wibble still we download at a speed of 28-30kbps under 256kbps,it takes complete 7 hr for a 700 MB axxo prints…patience is something which we are good athttp://www.rlslog.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif
Here in The Netherlands I got university internet. 15 euro per month (20 $), 100mbit up & down.
you are very lucky
in Turkey
1 mbit download/256 kbit upload is 40$ / mo (unlimited)
Here in the UK the market is very competitive. Live near a local phone exchange and it’s about 9.99-14.99 pounds a month for 8mb/sec down-256kbps up rising to about 14.99-19.99 a month (28-38dollars) for 24Mb/s down 1Mb or 2Mb upload (depends on ISP). Shop around with smaller ISPs and you can get faster for less too, but the ISP needs to have their equipment in the BT exchange. A friend of mine pays 26.99 UK pounds a month for 24Mb, cable TV and phone line with all calls inclusive from Virgin Media (including calls to the US for free).
One ISP (Tiscali) is offering up to 8Mb/s for 6.49 a month for first 3 months with calls included.
Never realised the US was so expensive, always thought it was much cheaper than us in the UK. ADSL2+ is being installed in UK exchanges as we speak and the government is now looking into fibre via utility lines that will offer anywhere from 50-100Mb/s.
@66
guess you’re jokin’…
In Turkey you pay 99 Turkish Lira for unlimited 8Mbit/2MBit connection (thats 75$) from the biggest provider Turk Telekom. There are few faster services from other providers but cost hell…
Wow, thats well over priced.
I get 20mb Cable for $40, unlimited use too. get 2.5mb/s actual dload speed.
BTW, I’m in the UK and use Vigin Media.
Something else I don’t get in sunny Paris… annoying letters from my ISP moaning about what I’m DLing. No caps, freekin’ fast, and a nice blonde babe wants to sell me fiber optic, which just got laid in my “quartier”. Merveilleux! I don’t even wanna go back to the US to be honest. Jeez, do we still have to pay for RECEIVING calls on a cell phone over there?
Sorry, it was the fiber that got laid, not the babe… I’m working on changing that tho’ … LOL
here in philippines, my 2mbps/700kbps cost around $70, including phone.. service sucks, and the average is like 1.5mbps/400kbps, the ping is like 200-300ms ping, which is not good for gaming stuff.. grrrrrrrrrrrrr… you guys are really lucky compare to us..
Not the best but still better than many in my home country
1 Mbps uncapped download with 512Kbps upload from Bharti Tele services for 60$
I don’t even pay 50$ for my 100Mbit so LOL
That’s kinda expensive, but worth it if you can’t get it cheaper (like me, mwhahahaha!… :P).
Also, the NTL 20 meg line is getting a FREE upgrade to 40mb come the end of the summer, after they roll out the 8mb > 20mb one, or somesuch.
The US prices are a joke, and everyone at work is convinced the US is better for internet speed / prices….
I’m so jealous of anyone with broadband. I recently moved from an apartment to a house in a new subdivision. I can’t get DSL or cable here so I had to get satellite internet. It’s terrible! 1mb download (that’s about 120kb/s on a good day) with a 12gb cap… problem is, when you go over the cap, they severely reduce your speed. In about 3 days I had used over 200% of the allowed bandwidth, and a couple days later they reduced my speed. Not only is the reduced speed atrocious (12kb/s down, 1kb/s up), but half the time web pages won’t even come up. I didn’t know how well I had it when I had cable. With Comcast, I didn’t get red flagged until I went over 500gb.
when i lived in japan for 1 year, i had a 100/100mbit connection. they had a special offer and i didn’t need to pay for the first half year. after that it was around 40-50 euro per month.
i work as a qwest rep, and ill tell you ive sold alot fo 12mbps , its a good deal, comes with a free wireless modem ($99us), and its reallyf-ing fast, now 20mpbs i havent sold yet, but it also comes with the free modem
so check it out