TELECOM Digest OnLine - Sorted: Verizon Boosts Top Broadband Speed

Verizon Boosts Top Broadband Speed

Monty Solomon (monty@roscom.com)
Tue, 18 Jul 2006 21:03:29 -0400

NEW YORK (AP) -- Verizon Communications Inc. on Tuesday raised the top
download speed for its fiber-based Internet service in New York, New
Jersey and Connecticut, the areas where it competes with Cablevision
Systems Corp. for broadband customers.

New York customers of Verizon's FiOS paying $89.95 a month can now get
download speeds of 50 megabits per second, up from 30 mbps.

The new speed appears to be the fastest offering from a major U.S.
Internet service provider. At 50 mbps, users of Apple Computer Inc.'s
iTunes Music Store could download a standard-length song in about a
second.

Cablevision has a competing cable broadband service at 30 mbps, far
faster than most cable companies.

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