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410 days ago
As we continue to see advances in Broadband Availability and connection speeds available to consumers and business customers, VoIP is here to stay and will be the standard for voice communication for home and business applications. Verizon GPON News Release NEW YORK - Verizon's aggressive deployment of the most powerful fiber-optic transmission technology in use today, supporting services over its fiber-to-the-home network, has earned the company a Telephony Magazine Innovation Award. The award was presented today. In accepting the award, Verizon announced that by year-end it will deploy the transmission technology - known as the gigabit passive optical network, or GPON - to nearly 200 of the company's switching centers serving 3.3 million potential customers. GPON, which Verizon began deploying in December 2007, is capable of delivering broadband services at 2.4 gigabits per second (Gbps) downstream and 1.2 Gbps upstream, further improving on the ...
643 days ago
Verizon Communications already has more than 1 million TV customers via its FiOS service, making it the 10th-largest multichannel video service provider in the nation, said the No. 2 U.S. telecom giant. The company's FiOS TV video service, which competes with cable and satellite TV providers, added 226,000 net customers in the fourth quarter, finishing 2007 with 943,000 total subscribers. For the full year, the company added 736,000 FiOS TV users. One million subscribers and counting can't be wrong. Verizon's Premier Television service is for real and offers exceptional value and awesome picture quality for today's discriminating HD TV viewer. First month FREE plus a $20 Target Gift Card with Verizon FiOS or DSL internet service Offer Expires - 3/29/2008 Offer Details: Introductory price, First Month Free bill credit and Target gift card offers available to new residential FiOS Speed Internet customers ordering the service ONLINE by 3/29/08 and subsequently ...
673 days ago
What this means is that the nation’s fastest network—Verizon FiOS—is getting far faster. Already, broadband passive optical network (B-PON) delivers up to 100 megabits per second (Mbps). Now, gigabit passive optical network (G-PON) electronics will increase speeds by up to four times downstream and eight times upstream in 38 communities in parts of nine states—as we transition to using G-PON in all new fiber network construction. G-PON's additional bandwidth will accommodate industry forecasts for phenomenal growth in bandwidth demand.
686 days ago
Consumer Report Rates Verizon FiOS #1 in Internet, TV and Phone Service In the February 2008 issue of Consumer Report, ratings for Verizon FiOS phone, Internet and TV were all in the very satisfied range. Verizon was the only provider to score in the 80s or "very satisfied" range. Once again the Verizon FiOS offering is validated as providing terrific value and advanced, reliable high speed services over a state of the art fiber optic network.
