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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."
-- Begin Self-important rant -- Ahh yes another imporper use of the term quantum leap. When will people learn that the term has nothing to do with a large change and that it simply refers to a change in states whose values are essentially predetermined, in many respects similar to multiples of 300 in the old baud rates for modems. When you purchaes that lightning fast 2400 baud modem you were making a quantum leap from that clunky 300 baud modem because the speeds had been predetermined for you.
All Verison is doing is creating a whole new system and there is no real dependence of the news speeds on the old, thus no quantum leap -- End Self important rant
I make my face look like this and concerned words come out.
Writing as a Verizon customer in Southern California...
YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
I live ze unknown. I love ze unknown. I am ze unknown.
Heh. Wish I had some mod points to spend on this one.
Ahh, Howard Dean, how we miss thee. All the entertainment you brought to the election...
Since Da Coach isn't going to run for the IL Senate
seat, I guess I'm going to have to content myself with chuckling at Ah-nold calling CA Democrats "girlie-men".
Good on ya, AC.
I wish I had a kryptonite cross, because then you could keep Dracula and Superman away.