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Verizon's $70 Gigabit Internet Is Half the Price of Older 750Mbps Tier (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Verizon is now selling what it calls "FiOS Gigabit Connection" for $69.99 a month in a change that boosts top broadband speeds and makes lower prices available to many Internet subscribers. Actual bandwidth will be a bit lower than a gigabit per second, with "downloads as fast as 940Mbps and uploads as fast as 880Mbps," Verizon's announcement today said. The gigabit service is available in most of Verizon's FiOS territory, specifically to "over 8 million homes in parts of the New York, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Richmond, Va., Hampton Roads, Va., Boston, Providence and Washington, D.C. areas," Verizon said. Just three months ago, Verizon boosted its top speeds from 500Mbps to 750Mbps. The standalone 750Mbps Internet service cost $150 a month, more than twice the price of the new gigabit tier. Existing customers who bought that 750Mbps plan "will automatically receive FiOS Gigabit Connection and will see their bills lowered," Verizon said. It's not clear whether they will get their price lowered all the way to $70. It's important to note that the $70 price is only available to new customers, and it's a promotional rate that will "increase after promo period." Additionally, Verizon will charge you a $10 per month router charge unless you pay $150 for the Verizon router, plus other taxes and fees.
"$70" is only the temporary promotional price, plus taxes and fees and other random charges they feel like making up and adding separately to the advertised price.
Advertisement of internet access pricing is bullshit across the industry and I'm sick of it.
I wasn't aware that Project Fi, TMobile, or Sprint offered fibre fixed broadband services.
They charge you for owning a router that connects to it? Isn't having a router and plugging stuff into it kind of the point of having the service?
That's like the phone company charging you rent if you rent a phone, and charging you rent if you plug your own phone in.
Real lawyers write in C++
I get the feeling that they want people to switch out of their old contracts to a new one because the new contract is missing any mention of privacy. Someone should compare the terms of the contracts as this may be the start of them selling your info.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
This is still FOUR times as much as I pay for gigabit/tv/phone package.
I don't have Verizon myself but I've worked at lot at houses where Verizon forces you to use their crap router, the wireless on them is not nearly as good as most other major brands and a lot of the functionality like port forwarding etc doesn't seem to work properly. They say you can't replace it because if you do the program guide on their cable boxes doesn't work.
It's really a bad situation and Verizon tech support doesn't have a clue how to fix things or be helpful in any way.
FCC be damned - the FBI should be investigating this for fraud. $69.99? That's fraud - plain and simple. $69.99 does not equal $69.99+$10+$some undisclosed non-insignificant amount after the first few months that they wont even disclose in their slashvertisement. It's going to be well over $100 once all the invisible fees kick in that they can't even be bothered to tell you about.
But I live in Chattanooga, where the government owned and controlled utility started providing fiber about a decade ago.
We got gig speed for 70 bucks in 2012.
Thanks government, thanks.
statistically, not so much. just like female wallets only matter ~70% as much as male wallets.
My big question would be What is the data cap?
We have Comcast at 25 Mbps. My friend has it at 200 Mbps for the same price. Comcast offers up to 2 Gbps at my house. My estimate is that we'd be fine with about 15 Mbps but Comcast nor Fairpoint (DSL) offer that. I don't think that it makes a difference on performance on what speed they offer you (to a point) - it probably costs them the same amount.
That's 2 stars higher than I'd give Comcast.
That'd be +10 stars more than they deserve, on a 1-5 star scale.
40 watts? Should be closer to 4 watts.
http://www.tpcdb.com/list.php?...
What's the maximum power rating marked on the wall wart?
lot of fucking good if they don't service your area, excuse me state, no scratch that quarter of the country
I can't see that as being anything but false advertising. +/- 5% would be one thing, but -6% can't be called gigabit.
In this case, it's more of the same we got from Comcast a couple of years ago. Remember that? "Gigabit Internet for $70 / month"?
Right.
For two customers in Philadelphia.
In the same building.
Eventually.
Unless you are offering the service to at least the majority of your existing customers, just shut the hell up.
I'm talking to you, Mr. ISP
Verizon's cable boxes need network access - which you can provide using your network equipment if you use a MoCA bridge like this one:
You actually don't even need your own box if you just want the internet side and not TV. Since I am moving to an area with Fios I started looking into it, and all you really need is to have Verizon cut you over to the Ethernet port on the demarc box instead of the COAX. This site walks you through the basics.
https://www.loganmarchione.com/2015/07/use-your-own-router-with-verizon-fios/