Verizon Announces FTTP Prices 384
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."
Business class... (Score:3, Insightful)
Humbug (Score:5, Insightful)
I'd definitely pay for it
A note to everyone: (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Can the backbones handle it? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Business class... (Score:5, Insightful)
sounds good... (Score:3, Insightful)
30mbps? (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Can the backbones handle it? (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Can the backbones handle it? (Score:5, Insightful)
No If you have a 30Mbps net connection you will rarely use it to it's full strength for some time. Possibly if you are doing Video communications will you use it up. It's more than enough for a small business website. It's more than enough current tasks.
As such ISP's will have time to upgrade the backbones to Internet II when it is needed.
In the future though I see a single communication line coming into your home. Off of abox installed in your house will come TV, Internet, and video Phone. Possibly using interchanged monitors.
Re:Bandwidth / byte charges (Score:5, Insightful)
I will watch this very closely, as I would love these kind of numbers, but I unfortunately don't think it'll be without more cost than the purported amount.
Re:Why does stuff go to middle of Noplace first? (Score:5, Insightful)
Why is it that Cable and Telcos always luanch these things in the middle of No place...
When the inevitable FUBARs happen, there are less pissed off people and less stuff to fix. Then when they've worked out the deployment bugs, they can try a larger market.
vs Wiresless? (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Too Bad Verizon is Evil (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Can the backbones handle it? (Score:5, Insightful)
Are there any restrictions on your small business service like running servers or reselling service? Residential broadband service has those restrictions plus upstream bandwidth is shared with other customers. You know it's shared and oversubscribed because they reserve the right to disconnect bandwidth hogs. That $210 is a third the price of a T1. With that you usually get a block of 15 IPs and no restrictions on servers, reselling service, or monthly usage caps.
Too Bad Verizon is Evil? You pay for the fiber! (Score:4, Insightful)
Yes of course. This is obvious. But remember that Verizon is out there as a publicly traded company to make money. So while "lockin" may not be so hot for you if you like to shop a la carte, it is a necessary evil if you want to big for-profit company to pay for the infrastructure.
Re:Too Bad Verizon is Evil (Score:2, Insightful)
I would rather have airlines that have to compete in a marketplace, evolving their business models to the most efficient ones possible. That's what a free market is for.
Airlines aren't de-regulated. You're not allowed to fly from Love Field on Southwest to a state not contiguous with Texas, because of a thirty year old law against healthy airline competition.
I say if American Airlines is in such bad financial straits, let Southwest take them over and run them profitably.
Re:Can the backbones handle it? (Score:5, Insightful)
Right!
And the game to watch is which of your existing services falls by the wayside. The DSL/Cable battle is just the first round. First company to put fiber in my house wins!
Next phase will be to eliminate current ridiculous bandwidth restrictions on servers because it will be more trouble to measure than the accounting costs are worth. Everyone can finally host their own unrestricted internet server. A lot of the smaller hosting companies will be put out of our misery by this and the only companies remaining will be those that need a room full of equipment to handle the demands of the large, popular domains, Google, MS, Yahoo and the like.
Net-centric computing will have finally arrived, and it will no longer be worth saving video, music, or even your own spreadsheet and text files on your local hard drive as they can be instantly downloaded from a server somewhere that is getting backed up regularly. In other words, current hosting companies will have the chance to transition from points of presence to storage, archiving, and application server facilities.
This will all demand an end to the nonsense of operating systems which can be easily hacked into. Microsoft will replace the Windows underpinnings transparently with something that is standards based (probably BSD variant), but Linux will continue to thrive for those who want to have complete control over what they do with their own hardware.
As the rest of the world tries to copy the connectivity nirvana achieved here in the US the world will enter a new era of peace and prosperity, except that all help-desk call centers the world over will still transfer to someplace in India...
And then I woke up.
To put it in more useful units... (Score:5, Insightful)
Hmmm... You know, that's actually an interesting milestone. It doesn't seem that long ago that I was actually using a 300 baud modem. This is a five-orders-of-magnitude increase in something like a decade and a half.
um.. no (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Thats not the future, thats the present. (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Not any time soon... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Can the backbones handle it? (Score:2, Insightful)
Are you sure? Gigabit ethernet is already faster than most hard drives sold today. You need a Raptor or a RAID array to beat it. And that's over copper.