Verizon boosts FiOS speed in 10 states
Verizon Communications Inc. is boosting the speed of its FiOS fiber-optic Internet service in 10 states. The FiOS service areas of California, Delaware, Indiana, Maryland, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia and Washington will see new plans that nearly double Internet speeds, Chief Operating Officer Denny Strigl said in remarks to be delivered at a conference Wednesday. The faster speeds were already available in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, where competition from cable is particularly fierce, and in Florida, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. With the speed increase, Verizon is now providing the same speeds in all 16 states where FiOS is available. It comes at a time when cable companies are preparing a big boost to their own Internet services.
The fastest FiOS Internet service, for $139.95 per month, will provide downloads at 50 megabits per second and uploads at 20 megabits per second, up from 30 mbps downstream and 15 mbps upstream. Slower plans are being upgraded as well. Verizon spokeswoman Bobbi Henson said existing customers will not be moved to the new plans and speeds unless they ask. Most customers are on plans that are slightly cheaper than the equivalent new plan, she said. The prices are for customers who have annual contracts and have Verizon’s landline phone service. New Yorkers and Virginians get a price break on the fastest plan: It’s $89.95 in their states. FiOS is available to 10 million homes, and Verizon plans to cover 18 million homes by 2010. This is definitely good news, however if you compare the price and speed with Korea or some other Asian country, this is still far cry from being awesome.
Source: AP
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how much?
*lol* 140 bucks per month what a rip-off
Bredbandsbolaget in Sweden are offering 100/100 Mbit for 320 SEK (about 55 USD)!
Offtopic:
Hey Martin what’s going on with the Nti forums? Haven’t been able to access them in like three days.
try internet in Australia we have download limits and then speeds get shaped to just over dial up speeds
fastest speed Ive heard of in Oz is 24MBp/s or there a bouts but the normal is about 150kb/s for that you pay anywhere from $60 to $150 Australian
I’m currently on the 15mb/2mb plan for 52.99 a month, hopefully the plan to replace this one will be a 20mb/5mb or equivilent. F Cable.
only thing that sux is the pricing for the best package, the old ones were.(in my area)
39.99 5mb/2mb
52.99 15mb/2mb
139.99 30mb/10mb
as you can see for about 10 bux more u can triple your speed from the basic plan to the median plan, but to double the sped from median to best it is the opposite which is almost 3 times more for just 15mb more. i think they should’ve just charged $15 more for each additional 10mb of bandwith, which sounds more reasonable. anyways FiOS rocks.
in france, “free.fr” is testing fibre optic in the region of Paris at 100mbit upload and 100mbit download (synchron, like SDSL) speeed for 30euro/month
at the moment their offer is 28mbit dn/~1,5mbit upload at 30euro a month plus free digital tv, unlimited email-adresses with 10gb webspace each etc.
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@ Joe
Bredbandsbolaget is great, but I don’t know how this is with other companies, but certain companies (bredbandsbolaget for example) cannot charge you for the “100mbit” plan if your area dosen’t support it or if you’re unable to reach the advertised speeds, it’s a rule here in sweden.
The next thing is you never actually accomplish the speeds they say, since you never know how far you are from the station ..and well it often happens that you get the most minimal speed possible so it does not contradict with the rule above.
Example:
There’s 3 available plans.
Turbo 100mbit
Fast 24mbit
Slow 8mbit
Since your area doesn’t support the ‘turbo’ plan you go with the ‘fast’ plan at 20$/month. Now what happens is if you go do a speed test you’ll see you’re often just a little over the ’slow’ plan…
So you’re not fully getting what you pay for
If only they didn’t block alt.* Usenet access…
Australian price comparisons @
http://www.whirlpool.net.au
when you compare Aussie plans to the rest of the industrialised planet, i dont think the rest of the world has much to complain about
wooohooo!!
where?
My Internet is free.
Beat that.
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@3: Depending on where you are you don’t even have to pay that much.
I pay slightly less but it’s still around there.
@9: I get full speed (well, ~12MB/s) on pretty much all I download and upload. If you don’t it’s the source that is bad, not your connection. The peering is often very good.:)
Even though the price is high it’s good they build more fiber connections in the US. I wonder if they are open or owned by Verizon in this case? Does anyone here from the US know? If it’s open to other ISPs some competition should in theory be able to drop those prices down a lot. We can all hope so.
I wanted to get FIOS in my area but it isnt available yet. I wasnt too disappointed as for I have a 3 meg connection anyways. The speeds are getting insane and the thing of it is what else do they think people are gonna do with that kind of speed. They wonder why downloading is so rampid now a days. Even the ones that can get the 139.99 plan shouldnt get too happy theyll probably monitor the activity like crazy and eventually cap it to a lower speed like Comcast was doing. With those kind of speeds your never gonna free and clear to download what you want or however much you want. I talked to a friend of mine at a university he was attending and there only allowed so much upload a day. If they go over they question the useage.
“If only they didn’t block alt.* Usenet access…”
Seriously? I’ll bet they do deep packet inspection (an invasion of privacy IMHO) and traffic shaping of p2p protocols as well. When the hell are these idiotic ISP’s going to realize that they could be making so much more money than they do in bribes simply by charging a little extra monthly for users that don’t want their usage impaired/blocked, and that unless the law says so (and remember laws can be fought/changed if enough people care), it is not their !@#$ing job to play internet cop? Morons.
That’s alot a clams for a simple service. Comes with a BJ every six mos?
My internet is free also. I get like 5 meg down and 1 meg up.
Plus I also have another one that is like 3 meg down and .5 meg
up. With two i.s.p.’s free who needs to pay! My area coverage stinks, and they give you more download then upload, and as a serious gamer I need all the upload, so until they give that option, I’ll just keep using WiFi. I’d give half my download for the same in upload!
This is silly. If North America is to compete with the ever growing and ever changing Asain markets these numbers, speeds and prices all need re-vamping. Lets hope Canada gets wise and changes their ways for the better.
@John (16): In that case the ISP:s suck.
I download and upload as much as I want without any problem, sometimes several weeks at a time (24 hours a day). The ISP never say anything and they don’t cap it or shape the traffic.
Well it is 89.95 already in NY (where I live) for the highest speed. So I think prices will come down. Time Warner goodbye!
I have had it with them blocking emails etc etc. I lost a couple of good invites to sites till I realized they were blocking emails. When you call those **ucks, they say they don’t and when confronted with proof they say they are protecting you from spam and dangerous sites.
Well I don’t need your “protection” thanks!
For that money they should let you have the alt usenet groups!
Hope some Indian ISP’s spokesperson or CEO do see these speeed………
“We’ve already had successful trials of the 100-megabit home, which will be a reality faster than anybody thinks,” he said.”
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This is great news for me. I’m on the 15/2 plan for about $50/month. I’d be happy with a drop price, but more happy with an increase in speeds. With Fios, you actually get what they claim. Test shows that with this plan I’m actually getting a little faster than 15mbs and using flashget, I’m actually downloading around 2MB/s.
Bahnhof in Sweden has a campaign price here: 100/100 Mbit without transfer limits for €3/month. Ordinary price €11/month.
All you folks complaining about Verizon are complete idiots. First anyone who is a “true” Usenet user has a 3rd party provider. Second they are the best internet provider still in the US. I have a 15/15Mbps connection for only $64.99 a month. I download/upload 1.5+ TB’s both ways, and have been doing so for a little over 2 years now.
@7 French Internet? get real dude. The French are so scared about any other country “polluting” their sacred french way of life that they have actually BANNED English words and phrases and even went so far as to actually block quite a bit of the net that does not come in the french language. And that comes directly from the BBC and the french news stations I get off the radio so there is no denying that fact.
As for banning access to alt.usenet…where exactly do you live? I have TW and I use the newsgroups just fine thank you as I go directly to usenet.com’s servers and dont try to access them from my TW account. Only n00bs try it from their own isp account as it makes it very easy to track you, but if you go directly to usenet.com, then all TW or anyone else knows is that you went to there, not what you did there.
And this is not a bad price. Sprint in my area charges a MINIMUM of $1500. a month for this. And besides, nab 10 dvd screeners/R5’s/rips a month as most of us do, and it already paid for itself.
So cease your barking, you are disturbing the neighbors.
I live in central Utah and our FiOS provider, Mstar, give 50 Mpbs up and down (yes, 50 both ways) for $39.95 per month. Unfortunately, it’s only a local company covering about 15 cities. What’s funny is that Comcast just raised their prices (again), and that Comcast is going to start offering 50 Mbps for $150 per month. It’ll be great for Mstar as all the Comcast customers switch over.
@17: it was in the news recently, which is surprising, because usually Verizon fights for their user’s rights (e.g., in the case of battling the RIAA’s lawsuits/invasion of privacy).
“First anyone who is a “true” Usenet user has a 3rd party provider.”
@28: nope, AT&T still provides decent newsgroups access included in their service. Who wants to pay more?
@31
AT&T only offers 8 days of binary access, and 365 days of text. Not to mention their completion rate is only 95%!! That is unacceptable to any real Usenet user. I have 200 day binary access, and 99% completion rate. I couldn’t imagine having any less. It’s more than worth the cost, especially when you add up the amount of data acquired on a weekly basis.
The problem is everyone wants something for free because they are cheap. I’m glad ISP’s are removing .alt hierarchy from their free service. It doesn’t affect the majority of users, and those it does will have to start forking over cash. Paying that small fee for a 3rd party provider out weighs what a user would spend legally purchasing the data they are acquiring.
PrS!:
the 100mbits they provide is pure fiber to the house/complex. since when did distance matter when it comes to fiber?
I accomplish my 100mbits from 20 connections to giganews.. a perfect 8-12mb/s all the time.
@31: you’d be surprised how well 8 days works if you have an Releaselog RSS feed. Nice try justifying piracy by paying someone to host it for you. I’ve used Giganews/Newshosting/Easynews in the past, and while they’re good, 8 days + PARs are all I need. I’ll spend the $180 a year on actual things worth purchasing. I’m sure most people would laugh at anyone paying to pirate software regardless of retention. It’s like paying for NZBs when there are services that’ll do it for free.
lol in France we’re starting to have fiber 100Mbps/20Mbps for 29.99Euros a month..
so you guys, Americans, want us European to send you Vaseline?
Eh Vaseline?!?! You guys are all losers coz here in U.S we dun need fast internet…we have G.W Bushman!
Australian prices and speeds are the way they are because ur a freakin island. its harder and more expensive to get internet lines over there. However there’s no excuse (except greed) why america doesnt have faster internet. japan, korea and some euro countries will always be ahead of us in that aspect.
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@Scarecrow
Just remember who invented the internet.
@34 rob, how to u get nzb for free. i had heard someone mention something once but then i was told u still need to pay for something else that nzb needs. i’ve never use nzb so i’m a little confused as to what is everything u need to use nzb, so how can u use it for free?
and does anyone know if fios is actually like twc, caus ei use to have verizon but even with the more expensive plan i had to reboot the modem every other day and i always had problems streaming stuff but i dont have that problem with cable but i saw that fios prices are going down but i dunno anyone that has it so does anyone know if fios is really as good as they say or is it like the old verizon dsl? i would like to try but i’m worried that twc is going try and charge me the new plan system if i leave then go back to them. any opinions ???
@37 Japan is an island also .. me thinks japan is ahead US 100 years and australia maybe 250 years
@10 they dont block access to the alt.* groups they only said they are removing the groups that are for CP.
@17 they have nothign against p2p, especially since they said they want to implement their p4p system.
@23 you do get the alt.binaries groups, only thing that sux is no boneless,b4e,and usenet world
,besides those groups are just a bit faster, since the movies will just be posted on a.b.dvdr/a.b.m.divx anywyas.
@39 Vz is nothing like time warner because I basically hit about 11.5Tb each mointh and htey havent said anythign fro the past 2 years, and i see no problems with my connection, and it never goes out liek it did with comcast, plus I’m always getting my advertised speed.
@35, ” so you guys, Americans, want us European to send you Vaseline?”
What is it with you Europeans and guys and Vaseline???
@39: Binsearch.nl and yabse.com both provide free NZBs.
50Mbps with fibre optic cables? They must be using the cheap stuff or something. They’ve started laying them in Britain and you can get 100Mbps with them.
In hawaii I used to have a problem with traffic shaping on usenet access. I was cruising about 240KB/sec anytime I went into usenets.
I switched to giganews and added SSL access and have never been shaped once. I jet about 960KB/sec 24/7
SSL256 is sweet. I havn’t looked back. I wish I could make my entire online experience ssl.
@41
The determining factor of the speed over FiOS is not the fiber itself. Fiber’s potential is nearly limitless (compared to other mediums). What DOES make a difference is the servers and the backbone that push stuff through. Besides, the only thing having 50+ Mbps is good for is really if you’re connecting to servers that can push stuff back to you at that speed (which isn’t going to be any public website I know of, with their millions of users), or if you’re doing massive p2p and usenet stuff (which everyone here is doing anyway). Now the music, software, and video industries are just going to get into more and more trouble as we try to put all our bandwidth to good use.
** DID YOU KNOW THIS ** Did you know that our once again corrupt government screwed us ALL over again. There is a documentary coming out about this soon.
The plan was that EVERY household in America was to have the fastest internet in the world “fiber”, and it was to be FREE! That’s right, FREE! Well sorta. The story goes for many years there was a “special” tax on all our phone bills that we paid. Then the story goes when they went to start this project, the couldn’t “find the money. That’s right, couldn’t find the money, that’s reported to be in the billions of dollars.
Looking forward to seeing this documentary. Jim
“Lets hope Canada gets wise and changes their ways for the better.”
Amen to that. Canadians overall have a reluctance to doing anything the American way whenever it goes against individual interests, and thankfully that is usually reflected at the federal level (though not always). I really hope this state of mind never changes and we remain a country where the freedoms and privacy of her people always come first and not the greed of big businesses, especially all those that are foreign based.
Something I forgot to mention in my last comment is that I have trouble understanding what the big deal is with offering more and more speed if it is just going to be blocked or slowed to a crawl anyways. Do we really need 100Mbit or faster if all were allowed to do by these ISP’s is surf web pages and check e-mail? 5Mbit is plenty fast already for your average download (like anything on File Hippo). The only thing 100Mbit is good for is p2p where large files are common place, but no you’re not allowed to use it for that even when it may be perfectly legitimate traffic. Until this changes, it just isn’t worth the price premium you pay for what you get, and I hope others see it that way too. If the telecomms spend a fortune upgrading their networks but don’t see a return on that investment, perhaps they will think twice about some of the downright stupid policies they adopted over the past few years.
Hi folks,
Glad to see many have spoken in support of verizon.
I want to know how much competitive is Verizon in US overall? Just rate it out of 10. Be honest. Dont be one sided.
Thanks
Ok can somebody explain this a little better? I’m in one of the states that is getting the upgrade and I have the 5/2 plan. What’s changed or where can I see what the new speeds are? Thanks in advance.
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