[ShadowDancer]

What’s FIOS?

[perfect_rovian_storm]

It’s a new product from Verizon. Fiber coming directly to your house.

http://www22.verizon.com/content/ConsumerFios

TW has enough to worry about with this service taking over it’s television business. It would be stupid (but just like them) to try and muscle out their own internet subscribers.

[ThePythonicCow]

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.

[BreezyDog]

Its fiber running to your house. BUT, unless you have fiber running THROUGH your house its the same old bandwidth over plain old copper.