Verizon Announces FTTP Prices

ffejie writes "C|NET News.com is reporting that Verizon has announced its pricing on Fiber-to-the-Premises - it 'will cost $35 a month if purchased along with Verizon's local and long-distance telephone service', and more if bought on its own. The high speed internet service, dubbed Verizon Fios, brings speeds up to 30 Mbps to the home. FTTP could lead to a sweeping change, especially in the television industry. According to News.com: 'Verizon is considered the furthest along with its fiber plans. It reiterated on Monday its goal of reaching 1 million homes and offices by the end of the year...' It looks as if FTTP is coming to the masses."

30mbps down....

[redhat421]

....and a whole 128k up!! :)

"FTT"P sounds like...

[JessLeah]

...the bastard child of FTP and HTTP.

they could add p2p...

[jpellino]

so you could use p2p with ftp and http and call it "pffft"!

Re:Article text for the lazy

[Anonymous Coward]

So now you get modded up for not only copying the article off of a news site and violating copywrites, not only doing so when the site isn't even slashdotted, but doing all of this while logged in so you can karma whore?

FTTP

[vxvxvxvx]

2x the transport of FTP

Re:Article text for the lazy

[akeyes]

Darn! For once I read the article, then read the first post.

Last time I do that.

Re:"FTT"P sounds like...

[red_dragon]

Really, now? For a while there I thought that Bill The Cat had a hand in it.

Finally....

[Tree131]

I've been waiting for this for so long and it's finally here!!!

Pr()n at the speed of light... literally!!!

Re:Can the backbones handle it?

[secret agent]

FIOS spelled backwards is SOIF, which in french means THIRST. And we know that when the french are thirsty they drink EVIAN, which spelled backwards is NAIVE, which is what you are if you think FIOS will be coming to your home anytime soon, leaving you THIRSTY for bandwidth. .,.By the way FIOS is portuguese for WIRES, which is the wrong name for a fiber network.

Re:"FTT"P sounds like...

[ezzewezza]

those aren't eyes, those are tees.

Re:Not any time soon...

[Anonymous Coward]

It's only coming to one town in Texas, then California, then Florida

YEAAAAAAAAAAARGH!

Advantage: CA

[gphinch]

So we get nice weather, beautiful beaches, hot women, AND FTTP? Suckers!

Re:Is it symmetric?

[Anonymous Coward]

It's asymmetric (rtfa, etc), 2 Mbps up.

Your upload bandwidth will not be limiting your DL speed. Experiment - install NetLimiter, squeeze your upload, and it shouldn't change your download speed until you get to sub-5Kbps.

p.s. if you're looking for a nice large file to try this with, I suggest a linux iso :)
Knoppix is pretty.

Re:Can the backbones handle it?

[Ian Wolf]

I swear I heard trumpets, harps, and the Angels singing. I got all glassy eyed and was begining to think the Messiah had returned and cmacb was his name.

And then I woke up.

Not since my sister uttered the words, "There is no Santa Claus" had five words crushed my hopes and dreams so utterly.

What about BPL?

[Ice Station Zebra]

What about BPL? Everything I read says BPL is going to save us. That it will even make the electrical grid more reliable. BPL? Anybody? Hello? (crikets chirping)