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reply to Smith6612

Re: Upgrade from 768kbps/128kbps to 1Mbps/386kbps?

Like me, the couple other people I've seen post on this deal received a postcard explaining the free upgrade and that it would happen within a couple of weeks. I think it was about 10 days for me. If you don't get the postcard offering the upgrade, they may not being doing the bulk upgrade in your area(yet). I doubt they want to get into doing 1000s of single user upgrades by request. At least thats my guess. FYI, its 1.5Mbps upgrade, not 1Mbps, and its actually 3Mbps if you're close enough.

Bob

I've heard about that flyer. I am close enough for 3Mbps + FastPath with only a 7 year old copper line connecting me from the RT to my home. A neighbor across the street who works off of the same phone cable as my cable is in has 3Mbps and it hold reliably. Roughly 2 miles wire length from the RT. The reason I mentioned the 1Mbps speed is because of the new speed mentioned in a news article, and the new speed for the starter plan shown on the Verizon plan, which I currently have but the older 768kbps speed, hence asking about the 1Mbps upgrade. Heck the added upload and slightly more download will be useful for me, but I'll take that free 3Mbps upgrade any day if Verizon is even doing it in my area, but yet again FiOS is set to come within a year now so I'd highly doubt I'd get one and would get promotions for FiOS instead (which I plan on moving to anyways).

reply to bfollett
Hello bfollett,

We are now near the end of January '09 and had I not read the article here, I would not have known about the free upgrade.

I am in New York City and never received a postcard. After reading the information here yesterday, I chatted with Verizon last night and got the upgrade.

Also, I was told by the tech that it is not 1.5M, it is 1M. Looking closely at the offer on the Verizon's website, they are offering a 1M plan for 2 years at $17.99. The 1M is shown quite small. Nowhere is the 768k offered any longer. However, still they have not advertised a free upgrade.

I hope there is not anyone waiting for Verizon to send them a postcard. If you want the upgrade you should call/chat/email them as soon as possible!

For everyone that received a free upgrade of more than 1M, hurray for you!