I saw this post on Slashdot yesterday evening that Verizon had put up a site where you could check your qualification for their FIOS fibre to the home service. It turns out, at least according to posts by Slashdotters who contacted Verizon that evidently the site was intended only for certain FIOS test markets. Myself I went right over to check availability, entered my phone number, and got one of three different types of runtime errors.
But it looks like the service will have a downlink of 15 Mbps and an uplink of 2 Mbps, at least according to that headline on the FIOS page. The price is $49.95 a month. Perhaps a bit pricier that I want to spend on broadband, but damn if that’s not a big connection, and I’ve read some reports that lead me to believe that FTTH is uncontended, so all of that capacity is yours. One would have to actively look for content to use it all up.
