Verizon is turning on the fiber in Tampa. Here is a quick overview of the Verizon FIOS service. Ridiculous ridiculous speeds. Finally the U.S. is joining the rest of the developed world.

5 Mbps down / 2 Mbps up for $34.99 a month
15 Mbps down / 2 Mbps up for $44.99 a month

Yum. We'll see this in the NYC area this year, but maybe not inside the city until next (Nassau and Westchester first it looks like.)
- jim 1-13-2005 7:58 pm

Seeing those numbers, my 128k IDSL feels even slower.

- mark 1-14-2005 1:07 am


:-)

You can do better than that wirelessly now with Verizon EV-DO. 200 - 300 Kbps, although you have to pay $100 / month. Still, for a laptop user it's pretty f'ing cool to be always connected. There is fairly good national coverage. It's got a little latency, but I don't play games or anything. I'm really thinking about getting it.
- jim 1-14-2005 1:23 am


Ah shit, who am I kidding. I can't get a $100/month wireless service for my laptop. But I probably would if there was some way to justify it (which there isn't despite my best efforts at self deception.)

But if I could buy an EV-DO phone (which you can,) that also doubled as a modem for my laptop through either a bluetooth link or even a USB cable (which you can't yet,) I would definitely pay $100/month for that (in other words for all my voice and data service.)

I think the LG VX8000 is the only EV-DO handset you can buy at the moment (for use on Verizon's EV-DO network.) Looks like they are going the complete walled garden route. Fuckers. You can watch video on the handset for an extra $15/month, but only Verizon's own video feeds. AFAICT you can't even get to the internet at large on the thing! The 1 megapixel camera is nice (with video!) but the only way to get photos off the camera is to upload it through Verizons picture messaging service ($$$.)
- jim 1-14-2005 8:52 pm





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