Verizon Has No Plans To Cap, Throttle > Common Sense 101

Common Sense 101

reply to v35_pilot

True, but they can do quadruple play (wireline, wireless. internet, TV) with the phone line going over fiber (not even really VoIP) whereasMSOs can't do that. As an added bonus, you can put VoIP on FiOS and they won't complain..and the service will work great!

How is it not really VoIP?

reply to major marco
Verizon is not going to cap cause verizon doesn't pay for bandwidth. They are a tier-1 backbone provider which means they connects to the entire Internet solely via Settlement Free Interconnection, also known as settlement free peering. While Cable companies have to pay for the bandwidth they offer to its customers from companies like Level3, Cogent, ATT, etc.

And actually the more bandwidth verizon fios customers use, the more money Verizon is going to make by charging providers (like web hosting companies, cable companies, other small ISPs, etc,) that purchase bandwidth from Verizon.

So you will most likely never see caps/throttling on Verizon FIOS.

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reply to mach
at&t is also a tier 1 backbone provider, and they have talked about caps. Sprint Nextel Corp. is also a tier 1 provider (alright, wireless is different and has many challenges of its own) Time Warner, Inc. owns a tier 1 provider... (well, ATDN's status is now confused because they haven't said much in awhile, but it was tier 1 at one point anyway)

Time Warner's Road Runner doesn't utilize ATDN or Time Warner Telecom (which is not a tier1 since it pays for peering with Sprint.) My guess is that they do that so its easy to sell each company if ever needed... Other than that I can't think of any other reason why Road Runner doesn't exclusively utilize ATDN and Time Warner Telecom. Road Runner could definitely offer no caps service if they did. But instead Road Runner pays for bandwidth from various providers.

About Sprint, well they offer different type service like you mentioned. Sprint has caps on their cellular broadband, which most likely has some sort of technical limitations at the cell towers of how much bandwidth they can carry. If Sprint was to roll out FIOS like service, I'm 99% sure it would have no caps either.

And AT&T is just a greedy dumb company so :P Or really smart, depends how you look at it really :P

The bottom line is that its easy for tier1 to offer no cap service. It could possibly even make them more money, the more their users use. And it becomes costlier and costlier for non tier1 ISPs to offer unlimited bandwidth as users use more and more, since they pay for it.

Anyway, that's just how I see all of this, I could be wrong.

Oh, I agree with you that it's easier for them to offer no-cap service because of their bandwidth situation relative to cableco competitors.

at&t is a greedy company, yes. But all companies are greedy... the question for Verizon is whether possible benefits of caps outweigh the costs... yes, heavy users are a minority, but they're also the minority most likely to pay for Verizon's most expensive 50/20 speed tiers, so attracting them for now is probably good for VZ's bottom line.

reply to EPS