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Verizon Reverses Course, Offers New FiOS Promos

The last few years Verizon has slowly but surely been refusing to seriously compete on price when it comes to FiOS, pulling many of their promotions while at the same time hiking prices on services wherever and whenever possible. That's especially been true in areas where the company competes with Cablevision, who has also publicly complained about having to compete on price -- so they've effectively stopped doing so while insisting that such price competition for new users is a "dead end."

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We're now seeing a little more movement on price promotions by Verizon, however. The company recently joined the trend of offering a $50, HBO, broadband and basic cable lineup promotional bundle, and it now appears their tiers have some new promotional rates in a few new markets.

Even Verizon's basic 15 Mbps down, 5 Mbps up tier has skyrocketed in recent months, though user elray See Profile writes in to point out that some users who visit this link are now able to offer the 15/5 tier for $30 a month for two years. It's not much, but it's more than we've seen from Verizon in the last few years. Hopefully Cablevision will decide to follow suit.

The link and offer is location (read: competition) dependent; where I am slightly north of New York City the 15 Mbps tier promotion is $50 for twelve months, then a not-particularly-competitive $70 for months twelve through twenty four of a two-year contract. Let us know in the comment section below what Verizon's offering in your neighborhood in terms of FiOS pricing.

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cableties

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$50/mnth...

for 15/5 by me.

Oh, and watch that Verizon link: they are using cross-site scripting and Noscript flagged it unsafe.

I'm in SouthEast PA. I am paying "special" rate for 50/25 of $52/mnth for Fios Internet only.
I tried to look up an address near me to get pricing and it shows $50/month for 15/5. for one year. $69/month for 13-24 months... ??? Who comes up with this pricing, a blind mouse?