Verizon Adding More Horsepower to FIOS 300Mbps
Speed is everything and how fast is how much you want to spend. Verizon seems to be adopting this philosophy and has announced that it will be adding more horsepower to it’s fiber optic internet plans and pricing it to suit those speeds. Doubling the speed of it’s current plan, 150Mbps up and 35Mbps down, the new top tier plan will have speeds of 300Mbps up and 65Mbps down. The new speeds will have pricing released next month but the current price for their top tier pan is $200 bucks.
The new FiOS Internet portfolio will feature download/upload speed tiers of 50/25 and 150/65 megabits per second (Mbps), as well as two new tiers of 75/35 and 300/65 Mbps. The latter speed is double that of FiOS Internet’s current top speed of 150/35 Mbps, the nation’s fastest, mass scale residential Internet speed.
In addition, Verizon will continue to offer its entry-level speed of 15/5 Mbps. The other speeds in the company’s current industry-leading FiOS Internet portfolio are 25/25, 35/35 50/20 and 150/35 Mbps. (A FiOS Internet speed grid with more details about the current and future FiOS speeds is available at www.verizon.com/newscenter.) Pricing for the new portfolio will be announced next month.
Can hardly wait to see what the new top tier pricing will shake out at and but rest assured it will be a chunk. We’ll keep you posted on pricing.
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It’s all still too damn expensive when compared to other countries and what they’re paying for the same thing.. I love my FIOS, never a problem at all with it but it’s just so expensive…
Yea agreed way too expensive. My wife is awesome with my tech addiction but there is no way in hell she’d be cool with us shelling that much out a month.
I sign up for Verizon Fios on May 7th 2008 due to a promotion of bunlde savings and a $200 Amex Gift Card. For a total of 115.68Because I had done this online I called about five times (Don’t have the dates) to ensure that everything was ok, and I was told that everything looked fine, and that I should receive the $200 rebate in 6 to 8 weeks .On June 28th I got my first bill $238.81, nothing close to the ~$115 per contract. And still no $200 Amex checks (they did say that the Amex cards take about 8 weeks to be mailed out). I placed a call to Verizon and after multiple and very annoying and long automatic menus and an average wait of about 30 minutes I got to a real person, Ms. Hatfield at 9:43 Am. To my surprise and to add my frustration said she will call from 1:45 to 2:15 because the system “does not work today” I had no choice but to wait, I Never got a call back.On July 1st I called again and same long wait and automated messages (about 35 minutes) I finally got to Ms. Barrell. She said that she could see that my bill was incorrect and said that my bill will be adjusted to the proper amount. But I needed to accept some terms that I had already accepted when I signed in, so I did ( I have screenshots) Accepted the terms again! @ 9:51 am on July 1, 2008.The next bill was properly adjusted but no AMEX gift card.Its now October 1st, because I have not heard from Verizon, I place another call, this time I spoke with Mr. Lee who said that he was transferring me to the Rebate Center. On the rebate Center I spoke with Monica who essentially said you are out of luck we don’t know about this promotion and we don’t handle this promotion if it ever existedI called back to Verizon to get to the right department, and I was transferred again to Monika who was very rude and said the same thing.Third try, called Verizon one more time, and I told the CSR that he needs to transfer me to someone who knows this promotion, this got me nowhere.I just filed a complaint with the BBB about this .