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Verizon Announces FTTP Prices

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the extra-t-for-your-money dept.

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."

11 of 384 comments (clear)

  1. GIMME by The_Real_Nire · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I want it!

  2. Lazy .. like George W. Bush by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    Don't misunderestimate that man's ability to take a vacation. Oh, I'm sorry, a working vacation. Yeah.

    End the dark ages: Vote Kerry/Edwards in November.

    1. Re:Lazy .. like George W. Bush by strictnein · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Don't misunderestimate that man's ability to take a vacation. Oh, I'm sorry, a working vacation. Yeah.

      As for John Kerry, he's only missed over 80% of the senate votes this year (from the AP). What's he been doing, instead?

      Remember the outcry in 1996 against Bob Dole, and how he was so busy, and couldn't have enough time to be a senator and run for president, and that everyone insisted that he drop out of the senate... and now the dems have two senators, and there's been no such outcry yet.

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  3. I will need to buy a bunch of blank DVDs by Lord+Kano · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Because the pr0n will be FLOWING LIKE MAD!

    LK

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    1. Re:I will need to buy a bunch of blank DVDs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Um, excuse me. Parent post was not Off Topic. Overrated I can agree with, but in a thread about high bandwidth home connections I was talking about downloading something.

      How could that possibly be off topic?

      LK

  4. no subject by CzarMike · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    free the weed man

  5. Article by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    that is all.

  6. Quantum Leap? by manganese4 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    -- 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

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  7. Hello: alt.binaries.dvd9! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Goodbye: Stores that sell DVDs!

  8. Re:Not any time soon... by hondo77 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Writing as a Verizon customer in Southern California...

    YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

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  9. Re:Not any time soon... by ZaMoose · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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.

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