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If the 150 Mbps is $95, me paying for a triple play package with the 150 Mbps for only $129.99 is a steal IMO.
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OOOOhhhhhhhh the money Verizon could have made in the long run if they continued to spend right now on building out more FIOS. Not covering all of America, but at least ALL the major pop centers. A deal like that would have everyone signing up | |
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join:2001-02-14
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| said by moldypickle:i pay almost that for basic digital cable and 20/2.....
OOOOhhhhhhhh the money Verizon could have made in the long run if they continued to spend right now on building out more FIOS. Not covering all of America, but at least ALL the major pop centers ...
Only those POP centers in VZ territory. They would never bring FiOS to 'snfc%n%.pacbell.net', 'sntc%n%.pacbell.net', or 'pltn%n%.pacbell.net'. Or to any other non-VZ POP center.
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join:2004-07-11
Snohomish, WA
kudos:3
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| It's cost them $23 billion to cover a small portion of their footprint, and probably would have been in the hundreds of billion$ to cover ALMOST all of their original footprint.
They only would make money, even in the VERY long run, if they can charge enough to pay that debt plus operating expenses plus profit.
given the lackluster take rates even at current low/loss leader monthly rates, isn't likely to encourage to them to expand, or in some areas even complete the current build out.
MOST homes have little need for those speeds, FEW small businesses need those speeds. | |
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| | | | | Re: I got a deal! You may want to google that, the build out was largely financed by the existing infrastructure budget. The claim that it cost that much to build was wildly inflated and the cost was spread across many years. Also by building the fiber network VZ benefited in not having to allow any of the (surviving) existing competitors to share it. Not that any are really left. The lackluster take rates vary from region to region. Many former Aldephia areas have seen large shifts from Comcast to VZ. Not to mention that if you look at the money they are making from it the subscriber rates must be pretty good.
References
»www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-kus···287.html
»www.newtelecomblogs.com/2012/01/···-for-q4/
I just have to find that article about former Adelphia territories.
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join:2001-02-14
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·Pacific Bell - SBC
| Re: I got a deal! said by jims2321:If you deduct the money they got from the universal service fee, their was was close to zero or they may have made money on FIOS. No teleco loses money these days, they are federally subsidized by the taxpayers via the USF.
USF isn't a tax. No tax money is transferred from the government to the telcos.
The USF is not mandated by a government entity with tax power, nor is it managed by a government agency.
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| said by HardwareGeek:I got a hell of a deal then!!
If the 150 Mbps is $95, me paying for a triple play package with the 150 Mbps for only $129.99 is a steal IMO.
Its just rate hikes disgused as increased speeds. It probably doesnt cost Verizon much to bump someones speeds from 150mbps to 300, since there is the capacity in the fiber already, and their plan should have the backbone for it. Now, lets just wait for the cable industries answer to this rate hike. I see cable based speeds of 150mbps down and 15 up fairly soon over cable HFCs. | |
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join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 | Re: I got a deal! How soon? Keep in mind that speeds like that would require a couple high quality upstream channels and six or more down streams, otherwise peak times would see lower speeds.
But hey, if they can pull it off, I'm all for it. | |
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| Re: I got a deal! said by iansltx:How soon? Keep in mind that speeds like that would require a couple high quality upstream channels and six or more down streams, otherwise peak times would see lower speeds.
But hey, if they can pull it off, I'm all for it.
well, to keep up with FiOS offerings in those markets, it would have to be really soon. a 4 bonded channel cable modem will probably see realistic speeds of 150mbps download, and a single upload channel can get you up to 42mbps(33 realistically because of shared channel limitations and no channel bonding), so, it would not be surprising to see these from cable companies soon. I have heard hints from the local charter office employees about charter increasing upload speeds(albeit, on a single channel), and that would be awesome. | |
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join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 Reviews:
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·Comcast
| Re: I got a deal! You can't realistically expect 150 Mbps deliver speeds over four channels, because you still have other people on the node. You would need more channels...which is fine, because eight channel bonded modems are out now.
As for the upstream path, usable capacity on a fully upgraded, wide, 64qAM channel, is 30 Mbps. Which means that real world, delivered in ammulti user environment, speeds would be 20 Mbps at most.
That said, many areas are limited to 16QAM upstream channels, which only have 10 Mbps of capacity. Hence cableco offerings that top out at 5 Mbps up. | |
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join:2004-07-11
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kudos:3 | Re: I got a deal! That assumes only 8 channels to the node... There may be many channels to a given node, any single modem will currently be assigned a max of 8 of them | |
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join:2007-02-19
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kudos:2 | Re: I got a deal! True. However I'd be surprised if any cable provider in the Us was reliably deploying more than eight DOCSIS downstream carriers at this point. | |
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join:2004-07-11
Snohomish, WA
kudos:3 Reviews:
·Comcast
| Re: I got a deal! I'm saying the potential to virtualize many combonations of 8 is there on physical nodes which can be added as needed. Cable can continue adding capacity WHEN there is demand.
FTTH has a huge initial install sunk cost, basically the same for 15/15 customers as a 300/65 which sits there costing money even with no subs to pay for it. | |
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| | | |  dvd536as Mr. Pink as they comePremium
join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
kudos:4 | said by Chubbysumo:said by iansltx:How soon? Keep in mind that speeds like that would require a couple high quality upstream channels and six or more down streams, otherwise peak times would see lower speeds.
But hey, if they can pull it off, I'm all for it.
well, to keep up with FiOS offerings in those markets, it would have to be really soon. a 4 bonded channel cable modem will probably see realistic speeds of 150mbps download, and a single upload channel can get you up to 42mbps(33 realistically because of shared channel limitations and no channel bonding), so, it would not be surprising to see these from cable companies soon. I have heard hints from the local charter office employees about charter increasing upload speeds(albeit, on a single channel), and that would be awesome. a 4 bonded channel cable modem will probably see realistic speeds of 150mbps download if they were alone on the node[NOT LIKELY] | |
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These faster speeds are virtually useless. Throttling prevents any real use of the speed IMO, and for those who think the internet "will shut down", don't really understand how it works.
Faster speeds means faster downloads of data, which translates in to LESS stress on servers/backbone.
Think of the way race cars get their tanks filled. 5 gallons in less than 3 seconds, where the gas station takes a couple minutes.
SAME content but the faster delivery, takes the demand "offline" nearly immediately.
Same holds true for servers capable of "serving" data that quickly.
FILE DOWNLOADS. I have a FiOS 25/15 service. The Fastest sustained download speed I've ever seen is when downloading MS OFFICE TRIAL, at about 3.5 MBS .
This faster speed does not translate into better movie quality, with say NETFLIX either, WHY? Because Netflix won't allow the data rates to make excellent movie quality a reality.
IN SHORT: Throttling at the server level will likely make these incredible speeds a waste of money. | |
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join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
kudos:9 Reviews:
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| Re: I got a deal! said by Aron :I'm not an expert at this BUT:
These faster speeds are virtually useless. Throttling prevents any real use of the speed IMO, and for those who think the internet "will shut down", don't really understand how it works.
Indeed, but it is not "throttling" which is the bottleneck. You can't pull data from my server at 1000 MB/s if my upload is only 512 kb/s.
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| | | | | | | | Re: I got a deal! True, and that is the point. You can only get the data as fast as it is able to be served, whether by hardware restriction or software.
Basically, you are attaching a 300mbs straw to their 512k straw. The "Vacuum" won't pull it through any faster! It's ONLY gonna come in at that 512kbs.
And that's my argument/point. The download speeds that VZ FiOS offer will be of use only to a scarce few, hence those who also serve/receive at blazing speeds. | |
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join:2000-11-17
Princeton Junction, NJ
·Comcast
| What about most web sites being hosted in data centers with gigabits of bandwidth? They should be able to put out enough data to fill even a 300 megabit connection. The biggest bottleneck is consumer's wi-fi routers. Sure, they advertise 150 mbps speeds, but you have to be right on top of the router to get that speed. In the next room, you only get 20 mbps. 3 rooms away, you get 2 mbps. | |
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| | dvd536as Mr. Pink as they comePremium
join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
kudos:4 | said by Chubbysumo:said by HardwareGeek:I got a hell of a deal then!!
If the 150 Mbps is $95, me paying for a triple play package with the 150 Mbps for only $129.99 is a steal IMO.
Its just rate hikes disgused as increased speeds. It probably doesnt cost Verizon much to bump someones speeds from 150mbps to 300, since there is the capacity in the fiber already, and their plan should have the backbone for it. Now, lets just wait for the cable industries answer to this rate hike. I see cable based speeds of 150mbps down and 15 up fairly soon over cable HFCs. yeah. notice upstream rates not moving[which can always be used] unlike token downstream boosts which go largely unused. | |
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join:2003-01-07
Riverside, CA | ...the first thought that entered my head was 'High-speed High-Fructose Corn Syrup would be awesome!'
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| enthuz
join:2009-08-08
Hampton, VA | said by HardwareGeek:I got a hell of a deal then!!
If the 150 Mbps is $95, me paying for a triple play package with the 150 Mbps for only $129.99 is a steal IMO.
I pay that for 35/35 TP, but I have the higher TV package and am not in NY...you lucky guy! | |
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| | Here in NY This officially makes fios 15/5 speeds with no package $20 more a month then cablevisions internet.
Fios has to be carefull especially in the NYC area with cablevision. If Fios gets too much more then cablevision people will switch back. | |
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| | | Re: Here in NY Happy with my 50/8 but 75/35 (more upload) wouldn't be too bad also. As a stand alone though it's $20 more than than CV (granted more speed too!) so i prolly could swing that. The 50/25 though is $10 more just for the extra upload.
Guess we'll see what CV does when it comes to those kinda bragging rights*, IMO that's all they are for 
* Most people should be happy with 75Mbps and lower, only super heavy users would need 150/300Mbps plans. | |
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join:2002-03-03
Longport, NJ
kudos:5 | said by majortom1029:This officially makes fios 15/5 speeds with no package $20 more a month then cablevisions internet.
Fios has to be carefull especially in the NYC area with cablevision. If Fios gets too much more then cablevision people will switch back.
And the 15/5 speed is what most Verizon customers use. Only people like those who come to dslreports pay for higher speeds. | |
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join:2004-01-26
japan
kudos:2 | Re: Here in NY said by Linklist:And the 15/5 speed is what most Verizon customers use. That's what I pay for. I'm getting ready to move. Looks like I'm getting out just in time. If I was staying in VZ territory, I'd probably switch back to Cox's HSI and save $30/mth. | |
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join:2001-03-22
Madison, NJ | At these FIOS prices many people will look to move back to Cablevision in my area. I love speed but frankly 15/5 gets me what I need with HD streaming video etc. 99% of users do not need a higher speed. This and people coming off TriplePlay deals look to have Verizon smack them around. Ergo good for V shareholders, bad for V customers. | |
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join:2002-03-03
Longport, NJ
kudos:5 | Re: Here in NY said by Telco:Wait until Mitt comes in and all MUNI FTTH projects are made illegal. The prices will jump even higher.
That is a ridiculous assertion. The federal government has nothing to do with that. That is a state decision. | |
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| Re: Here in NY said by Linklist:That is a ridiculous assertion. The federal government has nothing to do with that. That is a state decision.
Of course. It's not as if the GOP cohorts on the state levels have pushed to ban local MUNI from rolling out their own FTTH. [/sarcasm]
Not to mention, because of various Fed agencies abroad, these "socialists" receive significantly faster speeds, pay less, and have significantly more competition; which is the bedrock of any 'market economy'.
The Republican establishment's ideologically driven stance on Big Government has cost us dearly over the decades. And done so by delivering ever increased profits and dividends to the 1%. | |
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| dvd536as Mr. Pink as they comePremium
join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
kudos:4 | said by majortom1029:This officially makes fios 15/5 speeds with no package $20 more a month then cablevisions internet.
Fios has to be carefull especially in the NYC area with cablevision. If Fios gets too much more then cablevision people will switch back.
doubtful. fios doesn't have the peak hour slowdowns that cable does. only people switching back will be those working the swing shift[3pm - 11pm] | |
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| | LinklistPremium
join:2002-03-03
Longport, NJ
kudos:5 | Re: Here in NY said by dvd536:said by majortom1029:This officially makes fios 15/5 speeds with no package $20 more a month then cablevisions internet.
Fios has to be carefull especially in the NYC area with cablevision. If Fios gets too much more then cablevision people will switch back.
doubtful. fios doesn't have the peak hour slowdowns that cable does. only people switching back will be those working the swing shift[3pm - 11pm] That all depends on where you live and how heavily loaded your local node is. I'm on Comcast and see no peak hour slowdowns at all in my area. | |
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join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 Reviews:
·Verizon Online DSL
·RoadRunner Cable
·Comcast
| I know which tier I'd get The pricing on all tiers up to 150M is pretty close, between one tier and the next one up. The speed of 150M, particularly on the upload side, is just excellent for the price (since this is the US we're in). As such, if I were in a FiOS area, I wouldn't think twice about shelling out for that level of connectivity. 300M is just a bragging-rights tier at this point, but 150M seems like the sweet spot to me, despite it's rather high absolute price. | |
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join:2012-01-26
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2 edits | $65 for 15/5? $55 for 3Mb? Ouch, way overpriced IMO Seems overpriced to me compared to their larger MSO competitors. Cox in my neck of the woods does 25/2 for that $65. I would have figured that the 15/2 would be the go to standard $50 deal. And $55 for 3Mb? So much for competition bringing down rates. Verizon execs weren't too happy with FiOS adoption rates before and they shouldn't expect it to be any better now.
Price is king and they can raise speeds all they want but it is triple play promos that will get them subscribers. VZ does triple play for $95 for 2 years with the 15/5 plan. Given these prices that is basic cable + HD + unlimited calling for an additional $30 and you get a $250 Visa gift card.
These non-promo prices from Verizon are absurdly high. | |
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join:2005-01-30
Berwyn, PA | If I wanted 300 I would get two 150s If I get the 300/65 it costs me $205 per month. If I get two 150/65 and bond them together, I get 300/130 for $190 per month. So, I have to do some configuring and I may loose a little speed but I save $15 a month. I guess if I really wanted that, I would actually keep it simple and get the 300/65. But that ricing does seem a little strange. I will stick with my 35/35 package until the next renewal.
I have had Cable in the past and it is not even close to FiOS in terms of stability and consistency of speed. I run several monitors and can count on one hand the number of times I have gone below the promised level the past few years. While on cable I saw more such drop outs in a day. Of course, the end user may or may not notice this. I just like to know that it is stable. | |
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| | Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!
300Mb and not place to use it outside of bittorrent. It's similar to EPB's Gig to the home. They know that no one can really utilize it on a sustained basis so it's easy to add the 300Mb tier just so they can say their dick is bigger than Comcast's.
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| openbox9Premium
join:2004-01-26
japan
kudos:2 | Re: Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Yes, it's marketing for now. My guess is that much more than 20 Mbps download tends to be a marketing gimmick for a vast majority of people. Upload may be different, but so far most ISPs are still focusing on advertising download throughputs. | |
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The fact that you do not know about it does not make it "only bittorrent". | |
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|  SysOp
join:2001-04-18
Douglasville, GA
·voip.ms
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| said by battleop:WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!
300Mb and not place to use it outside of bittorrent. It's similar to EPB's Gig to the home. They know that no one can really utilize it on a sustained basis so it's easy to add the 300Mb tier just so they can say their dick is bigger than Comcast's.
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join:2010-06-10
Chattanooga, TN | Chattanooga Fiber I'm still glad I live in Chattanooga:
Chattanooga's EPB Cost are:
30mbps/30mbps $58
50mbps/50mbps $69
100mbps/100 mbps $139
1gbps/1gbps $349
»epbfi.com/order-now/
www.Chattanoogagig.com | |
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Expected to be under $100/month for 1G and about $50 for 100/100. | |
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join:2010-06-10
Chattanooga, TN | Re: Chattanooga Fiber I think everyone in Kansas City is waiting to see what Google charges and when they will begin deployment. | |
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join:2003-07-28
Salt Lake City, UT | said by ksh:I'm still glad I live in Chattanooga:
Chattanooga's EPB Cost are:
30mbps/30mbps $58
50mbps/50mbps $69
100mbps/100 mbps $139
1gbps/1gbps $349
»epbfi.com/order-now/
www.Chattanoogagig.com
That is a bit on the pricey side...
»www.xmission.com/utopia#more
50/50Mbps is only $35/month with my ISP...Paying $45 for 100Mbps symmetrical FTTH myself! 
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| | Higher satisfaction? "...recent high customer satisfaction scores justify a higher price point..."
I guess no one ever talked to the Verizon Billing Department!
Wait... $65 for 15/5 ? 
I should shutup then... um... mine is um ..$44...um... (whistling...) and speedtest showed...um... 25/25...la la...
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| | Odd highest tier price. At least most of the pricing seems to follow a nice pattern, except for the highest tier. If I can grab a load balancer (or install something like clearos in an old pc) I could pay $190 for 300/130 but 300/65 would run $205.  | |
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join:2001-11-04
Rutherford, NJ | I'm confused. I pay $45 today ($50 - $5 discount) for 35/35 with TV subscription (double play).
New price is $75? Really? I believe I'm missing something. | |
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| | | Re: I'm confused. I run 35/35 myself also for the simliar price, I had 20/5 I think before and paid 10$ more to get the speed increase. I'm hoping that when it comes down to it. It will be a simliar situation; 10$ more and I get 75mbit. As it says 35/35 is going to 75/35, then the price should be in a similar bracket as before. Not 25-30$ more.
Then again, those are "FiOS Standalone" Speeds. Not with TV Bundles etc. | |
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join:2005-02-06
Farmington, MN Reviews:
·Madison Communic..
| Wish I could get FIOS.... You guys can complain about prices all you want, but I'm stuck out in the boonies where the only broadband that is available is cable 10/1 @ $60/mo. My buddy and I were used to 25/25 FIOS back in Dallas but we had to move so we're stuck in the slow lane. He downloads movies since we can't afford cable TV and when he does my game latency goes through the roof and even simple web browsing gets rather slow due to the upload being saturated. He finally found a bandwidth limiter that keeps the upload from being saturated and I can do my normal stuff. | |
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|  redxiiPremium,Mod
join:2001-02-26
Sherwood, MI | Re: Wish I could get FIOS.... That ain't the boonies.. try no broadband, using cellphone hotspot, max 1.5 if lucky. Can't game or watch videos.
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dvd536as Mr. Pink as they comePremium
join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
kudos:4 | hmmmmmm looks like fios is even moving away from symmetrical speeds | |
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| axus
join:2001-06-18
Washington, DC | Re: hmmmmmm The upload is really what's important, not the ratio. FIOS is beating cable on both sides. I'd say that FIOS may be pricing themselves too high, but because there are duopolies, the cable companies will simply raise their prices to match. | |
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My 12/2 Internet service is $42.95/month and will never go up because in out area we have price for life with double-play as long as we don't change our options. For those who were not eligible for Price For Life, there have been a couple of $2 price increases for this service, though the speeds are something like 16/2 for ~$48/month + or -.
On Friday, I streamed a two hour HBO Go movie to a WiFi connected laptop to an HD TV using HDMI, and the Audio-Video presentation was perfect with a fabulous visual appearance. Not a single glitch. Viewing the bandwidth using NetMeter, it seemed that stream buffered at 8 Mb/s for a while, waited about the same amount of time and buffered again at 8 MB/s, and repeated during the time of the stream. The total stream was about 2.5 GBytes. This seemed like a pretty good stress test. FYI: speed tests show consistently 12.7 Mb/s down, 2.0 up and 1.50 MB/s download speeds for large downloads. This is extremely reliable.
My household consists of just my wife and me, as we're empty nesters and not likely to be streaming more than one movie at a time using internet. For normal Internet use (surfing, email, windows updates,etc.) we get by just fine. Thus, the 12/2 plan seems just fine for our needs now.
It'll be interesting to see what happens to competitive cable company prices in FIOS areas and the number of folks switching to cable from FIOS depending on Cable's response.
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I could upgrade today and take another 2 year contract and they'd also throw in a $250 debit card which would take off another $10+ per month over the 2 years but then would I be eligible for the bump to 75/35 as of 6/17? | |
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| enthuz
join:2009-08-08
Hampton, VA | Re: I'm on a tier that doesn't exist any more That is my question too. I took them up on the same deal and increased some offerings to keep it the same...lower when I return some unused STBs. I would love the 75/35 speed bump. | |
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| No caps The significant part of this announcement is that there are no caps on this service. I would pay $90/month for 15Mbps service with no caps, let alone 150Mbps service.
Comcast puts its caps at 300GB, but with these speeds, such caps look ridiculous. There will be users pulling down 5TB/month easily. | |
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|  BF69Premium
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN | Re: No caps said by quintin3265:The significant part of this announcement is that there are no caps on this service. I would pay $90/month for 15Mbps service with no caps, let alone 150Mbps service. Charter business internet doesn't have caps and you can get 20 Mbps for $80 a month. Or for $88 a month you can get residential 100 Mbps with a 500 GB cap.
Comcast puts its caps at 300GB, but with these speeds, such caps look ridiculous. There will be users pulling down 5TB/month easily.
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join:2000-11-17
Princeton Junction, NJ | Re: No caps A large family with everyone watching Netflix for several hours a day | |
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join:2001-03-25
United State
kudos:4 | Give me FIOS! I am in Verizon and a supported city, but not in my neighborhood.  | |
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BF69Premium
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN | What good is 300 Mbps anyways? There isn't anything that will let you use that speed and unless you have 50 devices connected to the internet at once I'm not seeing the benefit. | |
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| | | Re: What good is 300 Mbps anyways? said by BF69:There isn't anything that will let you use that speed and unless you have 50 devices connected to the internet at once I'm not seeing the benefit.
With Usenet newsgroups, you can get full speed for downloads and with one person make plenty of use for it. I can't myself justify 300Mbps down because the computer I want to use for usenet newsgroups is connected to my router wirelessly (via 802.11n 5 Ghz), but still isn't getting anywhere near 300 Mbps speed between the router and the computer.
But if I could in my set up and the price wasn't outrageous, I'd easily do it. Right now I'm probably deciding between 75 down tier and the 150 down tier once the new speeds are out, I'm on 25/25 now for a killer price of $45.99/month.
Price difference between 75 and 150 is negligible to me (BUT of course, the reps could give good discounts, and also bundle with phone as I already have TV through DirecTV), but I'm on BPON and don't really want to wait for them to upgrade me to GPON, which I heard in my area could take up to 2 months after an order is placed. | |
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|  aaronwtPremium
join:2004-11-07
Woodbridge, VA
 ·Verizon FiOS
| said by BF69:There isn't anything that will let you use that speed and unless you have 50 devices connected to the internet at once I'm not seeing the benefit.
50 devices? With one PC I max my 43mb/s download speeds with Microsoft updates. And if I do all six PCs it takes even longer sharing the bandwidth between them. | |
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SysOp
join:2001-04-18
Douglasville, GA Reviews:
·voip.ms
·T-Mobile US
| Going to need a bigger Hard Drive
And did I read that right? The base price is only $5 more without a contract and unbundled?
What is an extra five bucks at this point? | |
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·ooma
·Optimum Online
·Verizon FiOS
| pricing the stand-alone pricing is a COMPLETE RIPOFF! $60 for 3/1 dsl HAH!
watch how this backfires on verizon, as consumers flock to cable companies! the higher speeds really don't matter much amid much higher prices except to have customers cancel service. it's going to be a LOOONG wait on hold to get a customer service rep to cancel service because you aren't alone... | |
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