Verizon Introduces New 150mbps Fios

Wounder if they will ask me to sign a contract that sells my soul to them? Really, I am happy with what I have...a 0-9 button phone with 'Talk, End and On/Off' buttons.

So worth it! Sign me up!

I'd take it and pay for it in a second if they offered it in my area. Right now I have Time Warner Cable at 15 Mbps and I typically get 3-4 Mbps down. Their service is criminal but there's nothing else in the area.

They are talking about a broadband connection for residential users, not cellular networks.

We have 170/30 in New Brunswick

$195 for 150/35? Really? I am not forking over what is almost a car payment so "America can paves the way for a flurry of emerging bandwidth-intensive applications". Sounds like Verizon wants to pave their own driveways with greenbacks. Sorry, I will stick with my Comcast.

Our local ISP's offer 100Mb by 100Mb for 40$ per month. . .

They have these kinds of speeds in other parts of the world for fractions of the cost, this is BLASPHEMOUS!

thats a lot of porn per hour, lol

Verizon would be better off if they released it to small businesses first. I doubt any regular consumer would benefit from such a high speed.

Too bad it isn't available in my area. I despise C****st and don't really care for A** either, but not many other options here. I'd be willing to consider the cost, and I'm sure they are offering partials as well.

the upload speed is horrible..... When will they make better upload speeds?

Too bad my building can't get FIOS in Manhattan. I would take FIOS's lowest speed over Road Runner.

That is: depending of the load of the servers, the time of the day, of the area the service is, how fast is your computer... oh, s!*^, I'm reading the fine print....emmm....nevermind. That's fast.

Way too expensive.

No thanks, to expensive. I'll let someone else pay to pave the way.

I used to work for Verizon a ways back and the only things that matter with FiOS is the load on the server that you connect to and the speed of your PC. But thats true with any provider.

But unlike cable internet, FiOS doesn't share a single line. FiOS is more like DSL on crack. Each residence gets a dedicated line so they can get the speeds. But if the server they connect to only gives about 20Mbps then thats the max they will get.

BTW, if you could max out the 150Mbps FiOS it would give you roughly 18.75 MB/s. I can see them using this for their own servers for thei VOD which already pushes out 1080P HD so this bump will allow Verizon to push 3D and the next step above 1080P which is 1440P and 1600P if I remember correctly.

I'll still be sending that 3TB HDD by DHL. ;-)

That price is too much. Very few home users need that much speed.

I would rather see them concentrating on increasing their service areas, and decreasing downtime. I get Time Warner cable but FIOS is not available in my area. I'm not happy with Time Warner but I'm not sure that FIOS is any better. I have heard of a lot of downtime problems with FIOS, and I think their hardware is too hard to install in the average home.

Way too expensive. I only need 25Mbps dwn, and 10Mbps up.

Wow, I can get 150 Mbps both ways for $99.99 a month. I'm glad I'm not in Verizon's territory.

I have 50/50 thru EPB in chattanooga at 60 a month. What a rip. I could almost get a gig here for that price. www.epbfi.com

25/25 for 50/month is perfect for me

The American internet infrastructure is garbage compared to Europe and the like, it's pathetic...

Probably still come with a 60 GB cap.

Does anyone know if they allow servers off their residential connection? Because, thats the only reason I can see why someone would want a connection that fast.

I wonder how many people posting here are from the US? That is an insanely good deal price for mbps wise here. I have 15down/2up for $65 a month(so >$4 per mbps down, don't get me started on upload) while that is only a little over $1. This is the best service in my area too. Would like to have more upload speed to host servers with.
Still waiting for Google to come out with their FIOS solution and charge the consumer the right price for decent internet speeds.

I have a FIOS connection in the DC area that is 30.8 Mbps down, 21.5 Mbps up for somewhere in the neighborhood of $50 / month. It's bundled with phone and TV, and I haven't looked at the bill in a while and hence cant remember the exact cost. There's no way I would pay 4x price for 5x download speed and a negligible increase in upload speed. Especially since they keep increasing my internet speed for free every few months when I call customer service. Maybe if it was 150 asymmetric would I think about it.

You aren't completely correct in your statements... DSL is not dedicated. Many people think that the D is DSL stands for Dedicated. It stands for Digital. While the wire running to your house may be dedicated to you, it all runs back to a node that is shared by everyone on that node. So if say 9 other people are connected to the same node as you and they all pay for 10Mb service, they will only get that full 10Mb at the same time if the node is capable of handling 100. Unfortunately, alot of the nodes out there do not have enough bandwidth comming in to them to support every single person getting their full speed at the same time.

Also, just because multiple cable customers may be connected to the same physical line does not mean that they are sharing any more bandwidth than DSL/FiOS customers. Cable is like having an 8 lane highway with each persons drive way connected directly to the highway at their respective house. DSL/FiOS is more like that same 8 lane highway, but everyones driveway connects to it at the end. The only difference (theoretically) is how everyone is physically connected together. Since everyone is on different channels, they can all send data simultaneously without impeding other people as long as the node can keep up. With DOCSIS 3.0 available in alot of markets, cable companys can in theory provide an unlimited ammount of bandwidth as long as they have enough channels to bond together. In theory this would allow cable to be even faster than fiber as fiber is limited by the speed that the laser can pulse. As long as the cable company can put enough channels together, the sky is the limit.

But you are 100% correct, it doesn't matter what speed your service is (or what physical medium it is delivered over) if the server providing the data isn't able to provide data at the same rate.

If only Verizon offered FiOS in my area..

35 Mbps of upload bandwidth is horrible to you? My upload is 1 Mbps...