Verizon Fiber Optic Broadband 5mbps/2mbps for 40 a month 15mbps/2mbps for 50 a month!

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Just read this in PC Magazine today, verizon rolls out 5mbps broadband.

A fiber optic-based broadband alternative may be coming soon to your apartment, condo, or commune. Fashonists love to flaunt their prada shoes. Rappers pile on the bling until their sparkle is blinding. Corporate honchos throw parties with ice sculptures that pee vodka. So what do geeks do to establish their place on the food chain? They boast about their fat broadband connections.
But the pricey 1.5Mbps connections are looking mighty foolish in Keller, Texas these days. That?s where Verizon first introduced its fiber to the premises (fttp) broadband service, and its hardly an emblem of privilege for the grossly wealthy. Instead, residents are capable of pulling down an astonishing 5 mbps for as low as 35 per month.
Verizon is delivering these truly decadent speeds using fiber-optic cables that transmit voice, data, and video. And the company tells us that speed isn't the only advantage offered by fiber-optic transmission. Unlike cable, bandwidth isn?t shared among customers, and unlike DSL, you don't have to be close to the central office to get optimal performance.
Verizon is calling its service Fios (pronounce FYE-ose, an incantation we've confirmed doesn't open a portal to hell),and is already expanding its service to California and Florida. The pricing scheme which the company tells us is not merely an introductory offer, touts 5mbps/2mbps (downstream/upstream) for 40 a month as a standalone package or 35 a month as part of a local and/or long-distance calling plan. You'll also be able to get a 15mbps/2mbps connection for 45 a month as part of a calling package or 50 a month stand alone. Pricing for 30mbps/5mbps will be announced later.
Data service packages include up to nine e-mail accounts with 30 mb of storage for the primary account and 10 mb for each sub-account, an address book and calendar, 10 mb of personal web space, a web site building tool and access to news groups.
We've always said that bandwidth is like dollar bills-you can never have enough. If a years worth of ultra high speed broadband costs less than a pair of prada shoelaces, so much the better. PC magazine October
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What do you guys think? I've been waiting for this for too long, cable has been too expensive and I have fiber phone lines so DSL isn't an option. Not to mention the price is excellent and it doesn't suffer the problems dsl and cable get. I'm praying they setup boston within a year.

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Wow, i wonder where in FL this will be available in.... I would gladly pay another $10 a month to go from 1.5 to 5.
 
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HOOOLY SHIEETT!!!
I can't wait for this!!! I'm on the 1.5/384 plan, and I was waiting for the 3/768 plan to come to so.calif, but this.. WOW! My anticipation for this is beyond words!!
I feel like I'm moving to s.korea! :D
 
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Keller, Texas? Where the hell is that? I've never heard of it....

<---has lived in Texas for his whole life

Edit: Apparently it's near Dallas/Fort Worth. I did not know that. :p
 
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So jealous. That 15/2 sounds pretty sweet, compared to Comcast 3/256k for ~50/mo.
 
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holy hell!
now if verizon usenet coverage acts up, it be sweet!!!
that or i'll just use Earthlink on top of the Verizon line!!! :D
 
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i want more upload. heh. and this better be unlimited with no hidden quotas.
 
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"already expanding its service to california and florida"

where in florida? anyone know?

 
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political posturing in a few areas (verizon just came out of a big campaign alledging that revenues kept by not lowering toll access fees for comptetitors would result in "highspeed fiber optic networks")- if any one of the cable guys would open up their fiber networks (which they had all along) they could do the same thing easily.
 
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Wow. That's incredible. I also wonder where in Florida they're expanding to, and whether it will be in the next couple of months. I'm sitting over on the east coast in Titusville, and around mid year next year I'll be over in Orlando. I'd upgrade to this in a heartbeat if it was here :shocked:
 
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HHHHHHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!:D

WOW That's SMOKING!
 
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Originally posted by: skunkbuster
"already expanding its service to california and florida"

where in florida? anyone know?
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Tampa.

here is a good site to check out news on Verizon FiOS. This link goes specifically to the Florida map but you can check out all the states status with it.
 
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Originally posted by: JBT
Originally posted by: skunkbuster
"already expanding its service to california and florida"

where in florida? anyone know?
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Tampa.

here is a good site to check out news on Verizon FiOS. This link goes specifically to the Florida map but you can check out all the states status with it.
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ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THEY MISSED ME BY A DAMN COUNTY!!!!

Well i'm only one south of hillsborough in Manatee county, so maybe were next.

I don't totally get that map though, do the different shades of blue represent anything?
 
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