Verizon Introduces New 150mbps Fios

[thechief73]

I think its great and all that Verizon is pushing forward with new technology even if it is at a high cost, the more that can adpot it hopfully will bring it down to a more accessible price, while AT&T and Time Warner are staying stagnant and trying to monopolise the market by charging ridiculously high rates for tech thats slow and outdated. If we want to progress and get anywhere with regards to internet in this country someone needs to step-up and off great customer service and fast internet for a reasonable price and they will rule the US internet market quite easily. But instead everyone(ISP's) out there are sheep, just greedy and rolling in the dirty corperate money piles.

 

[pandemonium_ctp]

That's ridiculously overpriced. I get 130MBps/40MBps, so same/faster than Verizon's FiOS. I pay $68/month, cable. Before you start wondering, I've only had 3 outtages that lasted more than 5 minutes in the last 5 years.

Verizon...paving the way to their coffers.

I think you are misunderstanding the data measurements...you have 15 MEGABITS service and are getting 3-4 MEGABYTES per second download.

There are 8 bits in a byte. Also, speeds are never as advertised and always around 50-75% of the amounts they provide.

 

[yao]

I have wanted FIOS for a long time, yet Verizon never expand service to my area.

 

[djgene01]

That is awesome, i'm frm South Africa and here the fastest internet we have is 10mbps dsl and uncapped costs us $314 per month. so $199 is nothing for 150mbps. You lucky bastards.

 

[Guest]

i have 100Mbps for less than 10 euros/month

 

[Griffolion]

[citation][nom]whooleo[/nom]The American internet infrastructure is garbage compared to Europe and the like, it's pathetic...[/citation]

Erm i hope you're not referring to England in that comment about Europe? England (where i live), for a higher economically developed country, is 25th in the world for average internet speed (in mbps down) and coverage. The same study (conducted by a world wide group) went on to note America as in the top 4, behind Japan, China and South Korea.

Personally, England's broadband service is terrible, they keep speeds deliberately low and hold back on fiber investment so as to keep current prices high, and for the purposes of control. The places with fiber usually see more downtime than uptime (according to my friend who has 50meg fiber in the city).

 

[ApacoTaco]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the fact that no matter how fast a speed Verizon can provide on their network, the peering points will become the real bottlenecks. 6.6 150Mb users can saturate a gigabit peering point. 66.6 will saturate a 10 gig link. A provider's "Internet" is only as good as it's connections to all the other network providers unless of course you only grab content from websites on the same network as yourself.

 

[mauller07]

1. Buys service
2. sets up local wireless isp in neighbourhood
3. sign up neighbours
4. ???
5. PROFIT!!

 

[ProDigit10]

You can better acquire 4 separate internet lines for that price!

 

[Kahless01]

speed isnt the problem with fios. latency is the big problem. they need to work on cutting latency in half in the very least.

 

[amdwilliam1985]

[citation][nom]ionelroza[/nom]i have 100Mbps for less than 10 euros/month[/citation]

Come on people, you can't look at price at their apparent cost, try to look at the overall cost. How much tax Europeans are paying vs. us. It would seem like we're paying more on our internet bills, but then when you factoring everything else. My guess is that their ISP got a lot of subsidizing from their over taxed governments.

I'm glad Fios has upped the speed again, it's kind of like intel pushing out their latest $1,000 cpu, how many people actually buy that? It does push technology ahead though.

On side note, I went to Europe last year for vacation, a bottle of Coke costs $3 euro in their gas/rest stop(outside of Paris), lol, $3 euro man, I don't know how many of you will pay for that, I didn't. $10 euro for a McDonald's meal, omg, I paid for this, because I need food. My point is, try to actually travel to other parts of the world, and then you will realize America is heaven comparing to them.

 

[Guest]

For the cost this is only a value add if you are a complete bittorrent junkie downloading many HD movies a day.

 

[bipolargraph]

I used to pay ~40 bucks for 256 Kbps.. 🙁

 

[ArgleBargle]

Too bad you'll hit the monthly bitcap in one hour.

 

[the-real-link]

We're already paying ~$60/mth for I believe it's 8 down, 2 up so really, tripling the cost scales to nearly 15x the bandwidth! While it is inherently a good value proposition, the fact that it's still $200 a month is daunting for sure. Otherwise if I could afford it, yes please 😉

 

[dark_lord69]

194.99/month
I used to pay $25 a month for internet. (unlimited cable)
yeah, I'd have to say that price is NOT worth it.

 

[dragonsqrrl]

[citation][nom]eddieroolz[/nom]Sigh.Why not use some of the economic stimulus to lay down fibre-optic cables across the nation? That way we can actually catch up to what people in Europe/Asia have and not be stuck in the Stone Age of ISPs.[/citation]
lol... surprised you didn't get thumbed down to oblivion for suggesting something like that.