Verizon to roll out 100Mbps FIOS in 2009

By on Dec 6, 2008 at 8:49 AM
News December 6, 2008

fiber opticAccording to Vincent O’Byrne, Verizon’s technology director, Verizon is planning to roll out 100Mbps FIOS in 2009. This move will expand the ultra high speed network beyond its limited test market which has been enjoying 100Mbps for at least a year now. With Comcast deploying DOCSIS 3.0 and upping the speeds it offers to 50Mbps in many markets, the pressure is on Verizon to maintain its competitive speed advantage, from a marketing standpoint at least. In the past, Verizon has made it clear that it views the 100Mbps speed threshold as a “sexy” marketing strategy, not a real necessity for most customers and that the driving force behind these speed increases is not customer demand but competitive marketing tactics. As long as it continues to up the ante and provide quality service, we don’t care whether it is the marketing team or consumers who are in driver’s seat. All we want is ample bandwidth to be able to stream Netflix HD, backup to Jungle Disk, video chat on skype, download the latest game demos and play COD4 on Xbox 360 all at the same time.

[Via DSl Reports]

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  • be weary

    I hope everyone realizes that Verizon will do the same thing with their internet connection service as they did with DSL. When DSL was first available in NJ, the rates were great and the speeds were awesome (for its time). Verizon decided to join the market and gave their own DSL with super-low rates, to entice everyone to jump to their service. In fact, from what I heard, Verizon was at cost or just below cost, at the time, just to compete with the local DSL providers. Then once everyone hopped off the other DSL companies (which eventually went out of business b/c of Verizon), Verizon jumped their rates up to ridiculous costs.

    I see them doing the exact same thing with Comcast and Cablevision and all other broadband carriers. Be weary of Verizon and expect their rates to shoot up, once they have you. They have a very good track record of this and will repeat it again.

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