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I was very happy with clearwire home service ($60 take two plan, that's $30 for my line) with rooftop antenna, not till sprint took over-- slower (6-7 Mbps from original 15 Mbps+) and lack of maintaining the network (network frozen several time after merge with Sprint). New clearwire boss put a speed limits on all online video streaming that also apply to my clear 4G service. They are lacking of promises to upgrade or maintain the exist Clear customers. I have to look outside the box before my limited choices price goes up in my zone (Los Angeles market). My zone there is no copper service, so DSL Extreme or Sonic Fusion is not available that I verified with Nick from DSL extreme. That leaves me with TWC or FIOS left, but TWC's 50Mbps won't upgrade to 100 Mbps in my market anytime soon, plus, with TWC 1 Mbps upload and modem fee, forget it. Those $69 plus modem fee and slow upload, I passed TWC since I have Verizon FIOS in the area. So I looked into Verizon FIOS instead. $89 first year $99 second, select TV, 50/35 Mbps and Digital voice to qualify the $300 card, $10 work discount, $12 HD STB fee, $99 upgrade-able to wifi N modem (I didn't go with it). But first bill after tax is $110+ that has free installation, free activation. Their billing sucks, the tax is near $8 only but $89+tax$8+HD STB$12-corp discount$10=$110?? They just won't honor their deal of $89 from their billing. Be aware of that. I don't watch TV at all due to Verizon's great and competitive Select Pack and triple-play is lower than internet only plan after promotion, so I returned the box after a week. That took me a while to return it that I have to talk to retention for 2 days to work this out. I don't need their voice either because I used my VOIP. I ordered triple play is due to work discount and $300 as well as their 50/35 alone costs more than triple play with discounts. I moved from Asia where internet is a lot cheaper and faster, so my review is ummm....pricy for my speed and slow global network. Verizon's connect is so bad connected to overseas. Only their domestic connection is upto claimed speed. 02/10/2014 Verizon hasn't been able to provide the right bills so far and 3 months in a row. They haven't honored even $89.99 first year yet, no corp discount, only partially discount $10 from full price. I haven't seen the $300 gift card or Bank of America promotion. Call billing ending up with a rep with attitudes. Wow, this is monopoly business, take it or leave it style. Buyers be aware. Those the rep on the phone claimed fixed the issue, but this is the third month I have to call in for closer amount. They still didn't honor $89.99 first year yet. The speed to overseas is still s-l-o-w... Only daytime (I am away to work) the connection is better than evening to night. But decent domestic connections besides Netflix or Viki that I cancelled Netflix in the end. sometime around worldcup 2014 We increased to 75/35 speed with higher charge to bundle Prime HD package for World cup, then got upgraded to 75/75 from Verizon weeks after. YouTube is stuck evening to night time as always. Speed to local Los Angeles servers not always can reach the advertised speed, not to mention out of town speed, just half or less. Although one of LA server can deliver 10% over than 75/75 to 84/90 kind of speed, but it's still from time to time. The issues were pretty bad when worked from home day time. Call reps and told a lot of non sense such as third party hardware not be able to reach the advertise speed or if we were using smartphone or it has to be wired lines reboot or reset so many times. I only do one smart TV or one desktop at one time. They just can't deliver the speed. Verizon charged more than Google Fiber's 1G speed but can't deliver quality network, not even local, state cities or domestic major cities at advertised speed. Shame on Verizon, charged us premiums with lousy network but claim fiber. They should say fiber service on old and narrow network who can't even run YouTube clips well so many times so far. How is that, Verizon? 11/25/2014 to 1/12/2015 Speeds: Our FiOS connections has a pattern now. It's fast to "local" speedtest servers during daytime; slow to YouTube at nights then turning to no connections, and weekend even having on-and-offs NetFlix experiences. Some nights will lost internet with no server found on any pages or sites. Charge: as high as they could with bad quality Customer services: There is non. They told you to reboot, then told me that I am using non Verizon (3rd party) equipment (my wired computer, just one connection) and they can't grantee it. Then change to laptop with LAN, same thing. Conclusion: So after weeks, I know just use my Sprint Spark speed smartphone to go online at night, forget about Verizon FiOS. (I only get 13Mbps with Band41 if I am lucky to get on it or 3Mbps with band 25 with Sprint Spark, though Sprint coverage map shown turbo). 06/06/2015 Speeds: As before, Netflix will have some little buffering issues on weird internet. I have less YouTube issues recently. Still bad major cities connection speeds but improving a bit, now FiOS out of town from Los Angeles to San Diego and Mexico improved to in town speed. And that's it. Nowhere else has better speeds. They decide to sweeten a bit with HBO 3 months offer. But I got more pissed because I don't watch TV. I want they to fix the network congestions. So I called to cancel my service and jump Verizon ship but they don't pick up during weekends when it comes to cancellations. member for 11 years, 1022 visits, last login: 46 days ago updated 8.7 years ago
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