Verizon’s $70 gigabit Internet is half the price of older 750Mbps tier

FiOS customers on 750Mbps plan will get speed boost and automatic price cut.

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Oh Verizon. Unlimited != unlimited. Gigabit != gigabit. Never change.

Well I am not going to complain about 'only' 940 Mbps with no caps for $70.

I do wonder how is this rollout will be. I also wonder if this would ever have happened had Google not lit a fire under the ISPs.

 

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I have had broadband at: 3Mbps, 6Mbps, 15Mbps, 25Mbps, 50Mbps and now I have 100Mbps+. I stopped noticing any connectivity improvement at 25Mbps. No commercial server anywhere, owned by anyone is going to let you suck data at a Gbps.
It is no wonder Giga-plans are not all that pricey, they don't really cost anything in actual bandwidth due to server side controls.

Steam. While not gigabit it certainly is faster than 25 Mbps. I have downloaded at 150 Mbps and I am sure that isn't maxing it out. Also the main advantage of gigabit isn't a single full throughput stream but multiple streams. I can be downloading a game on Steam while my wife is watching House of Cards in 4K without hearing "Statistical, Netflix isn't working".

 

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The article doesn't mention if there's a data cap or not. I'm skeptical that Verizon is offering such a good price for something close to gigabit without there being a data cap that you'd exceed after six hours of maxing out your connection.

FIOS has no data cap for any existing plans (even 750 Mbps) so I really doubt this is any different. FIOS honestly is very different than the rest of Verizon but God help you if you have a billing error.

 

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Oh Verizon. Unlimited != unlimited. Gigabit != gigabit. Never change.

I am am sort of ok with this one. If you include the overhead then it is a gbps link. The advertising is wrong but the fact is not. Probably just needs another competitor to do better and get the FCC? FTC? or whoever polices ads to make them fix it.

If the real speeds were 940/940 I'd be fine with it. But when the upload is 850 that's significantly under gigabit.

Ok that still makes it better than 99% of ISPs in the US. I mean they don't advertise gigabit symmetrical and hell Comcast gigabit over cable is 35 Mbps upload.

 

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Verizon, why did you sell me to Frontier?

The same reason anyone sells to Frontier, the infrastructure in your area is so old that upgrading it would cost more than they would ever be able to make back.

They sold state of the art fios infrastructure (2.4 gigabit GPON) to Frontier. The reason is far sadder. Cellular is more profitable so they sold off profitable FIOS to Frontier (who will run it into the ground) to build MOAR towers and thus MOAR cellular profits.

 

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Looks like existing customers will be able to get Gigabit plan (for normal price) starting April 30th.

Existing customers who wish to upgrade to Fios Gigabit Connection will be able to do so online starting April 30.

https://www.verizon.com/about/news/veri ... -speeds-th

Your link is broken. However "for regular price" is kinda useless as many existing customers are seeing a regular price of $200. I mean I would like gigabit and would even accept (grudgingly) a price marginally higher than new users but 2.5x the cost for the exact same service? Screw that noise.