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To: ShadowDancer
FIOS is Verizon's fiber optic service -- fiber all the way to the residence, providing phone (no more twisted pair coming into the house), tv (no more coax coming into the house) and internet.

They are pushing expansion of it hard, investing $500 to $1000 per installation, even though they only charge perhaps $60 to $120 per month, depending on what you buy. The service is rock solid, and the data rates excellent.

I have the cheapest internet service available via FIOS, providing a solid 5 mbits down, 2 mbits up, with none of the -dramatic- throttling of upstream bandwidth that I got with Comcast back in Kalifornia if I started sharing files with BitTorrent.

If I wanted, I could get up to 20 or 40 mbits, both up and down, for a very reasonable price.

Verizon likes it because it gives them total lockin on all phone, video and data services. Once they have the upper hand in enough markets with it, I would not be surprised to see my rates to up. But meanwhile, it's a great deal.

10 posted on 01/17/2008 4:22:42 PM PST by ThePythonicCow (The Greens and Reds steal in fear of freedom and capitalism; Fear arising from a lack of Faith.)
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$120 for all three services with that?


12 posted on 01/17/2008 4:25:56 PM PST by ShadowDancer (Alcoholism is a disease, but it’s the only disease that you can get yelled at for having.)
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