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Verizon Announces FTTP Prices
ffejie writes "C|NET News.com is reporting that Verizon has announced its pricing on Fiber-to-the-Premises - it 'will cost $35 a month if purchased along with Verizon's local and long-distance telephone service', and more if bought on its own. The high speed internet service, dubbed Verizon Fios, brings speeds up to 30 Mbps to the home. FTTP could lead to a sweeping change, especially in the television industry. According to News.com: 'Verizon is considered the furthest along with its fiber plans. It reiterated on Monday its goal of reaching 1 million homes and offices by the end of the year...' It looks as if FTTP is coming to the masses."
....and a whole 128k up!! :)
...the bastard child of FTP and HTTP.
Honey, I shrunk the Cygwin
so you could use p2p with ftp and http and call it "pffft"!
"Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
Darn! For once I read the article, then read the first post.
Last time I do that.
FIOS spelled backwards is SOIF, which in french means THIRST. And we know that when the french are thirsty they drink EVIAN, which spelled backwards is NAIVE, which is what you are if you think FIOS will be coming to your home anytime soon, leaving you THIRSTY for bandwidth. .,.By the way FIOS is portuguese for WIRES, which is the wrong name for a fiber network.
It's only coming to one town in Texas, then California, then Florida
YEAAAAAAAAAAARGH!
I swear I heard trumpets, harps, and the Angels singing. I got all glassy eyed and was begining to think the Messiah had returned and cmacb was his name.
And then I woke up.
Not since my sister uttered the words, "There is no Santa Claus" had five words crushed my hopes and dreams so utterly.
"The words of the prophets are written on the Slashdot walls."