Verizon FiOS Internet upload speed hits 35 Mbps!
January 18th, 2010, 4:39 pm · 20 Comments · posted by Tamara Chuang, a.k.a. The Gadgetress
Verizon just announced today faster Internet speeds for FiOS customers of up to 35 megabits per second upload. That’s faster than any Orange County Internet provider’s download speed.
Faster upload speeds means spending less time uploading photos to Facebook, sending giant spreadsheets and other files to coworkers online or regularly backing up computer files to the great big cloud. According to Verizon, the faster 35 mbps speed means uploading a 20-minute HD video in three to five minutes instead of the half hour it takes with a cable Internet connection.
In Orange County, cable companies upload speeds are a measly 1 to 2 mbps.
But most of Orange County can’t order FiOS. The fiber-optic service is a huge investment for Verizon, which needs city permission to lay cables in the neighborhood. The service has only reached residents in parts of Brea, Cypress, Fountain Valley, Garden Grove, Huntington Beach, La Habra, La Palma, Los Alamitos, Seal Beach Stanton, Westminster and certain unincorporated areas.
Those of us who can’t order Verizon FiOS can, at least, take heart that we won’t be subject to the service’s new early termination fees.
Separately, Verizon confirmed that customers who drop out before their two-year contract ends could be forced to cough up an extra $360. Previously, the fee was $179. The higher early-termination fee does drop by $15 every month the customer keeps the service, which means by month 23, exiting customers will be charged $15.
The new Internet upload speeds of 25 Mbps up and down, and 35 mbps up and down, upgrade existing plans. Here’s the low down of FiOS TV/Internet bundles:
FiOS plans Price Ultimate: TV service with 90+ HD channels, Internet speed of 35 mbps up/down, phone $139.99 Extreme: TV service with 65 HD channels, Internet speeds of 25 mbps up/down, phone $124.99 Prime: TV service with 40 HD channels, Internet speed of 15 mbps down, 5 up, phone $109.99
More details on the new bundles HERE at Verizon’s site.
Notable special: Verizon is offering a major FiOS discount to new customers — $20 discount each month for first 12 months for Prime plan, $10 discount for either the Extreme or Ultimate plan.
More on Verizon FiOS:
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Didn’t realize the OC had such crappy interest speed.
Its beyond me why people in areas with Verizon fios don’t get it fast. if it came to my neighborhood i would get it instantly!
fios is avaliable were i live, but i do not have it because the cost of higher speed do not make any economic sense to me. i do not load large video files. also most of the time i would be paying for idle badwidth that i am not using. the cost advantages are not their. ill stick with my 768k. also some sites that i visit, do not have high speed internet connections(such as a DS3 line which is around 45Mbps), so the whole higher speed = less time does not hold true if the hosting server has a low bandwidth speed.(like many medium to small business only have a DS1 line). also i can still watch netflix with a 768k without buffering
Fast D/L speeds are much more important for residential customers than upload speeds. Most of the internet activity is D/L for home users. Personally I usually D/L 3-4 times more than I upload from my home data connection.
I’m stuck with U-verse from AT&T. I’m curious what the prices would be if Verizon, AT&T, Time Warner and Cox Communications would compete in my neighborhood.
Basic economics, more competition lower prices. The Verizon, AT&T, Time Warner and Cox Communications lobbyists will never let that happen…. so we will never know.
Probably nobody would be happy if your street was torn up and room made for 4 different companies high speed data services in your neighborhood. Usually cable companies don’t like to overbuild on top of each other and phone companies don’t like to overbuild on top of each other service area’s. Especially when you are dealing with low density single family homes. There is nothing preventing them except for the economics and city planning comissions that would have to approve all the construction.
Verizon blows! Phone , internet and lets not forget cellular.
They are too big and they don’t care about the little “guy” because they don’t have care. I didn’t have a choice for a land line but them…And I can’t believe that is the way it is…here in hb. Tell me I am wrong, I was told thats the only carrier here that covers landlines…not thru your computer…and of course I was suckered into them as well for internet….
Thanks to my landlord hooking it all up outside our apt. complex…I was still obligated to the same costs as if I was a single family dwelling!!! They aren’t right at all.
“And I can’t believe that is the way it is…here in hb”
that was bribery based “deal” to exclude SBC
your city’s council is rotten to the core and has been *obviously* since construction of florida-like hotels along PCH but really have been corrupt much longer. Given the mostly red color on the map one would think it would be otherwise.. high density housing- and rent control is part of the same plague.. vote it away
were you aware your city charter LIMITS BUILDINGS TO THREE STORIES? Go to their next meeting and ask about that conundrum
verizon (GTE) has never cared. why? one- or two year CONTRACTS strips their customer service concern. TWC operates like california employment: at will — they bill monthly. you can get fios monthly but at a convenient $10-$20 more a month
I agree. Upload speed is nice when you need it, but we rarely do at our house. My DL speeds are great with cox cable and I am not about to pay over $100 a month for extra services I don’t want. If FIOS was in my neighborhood and I could get the internet connection ONLY then I would consider it.
it is the verizon-way to inflict charges for services you do NOT want
choke on it
that’s what verizon wants: your suffering is a sweet pastry to them
We have Internet, phone, and cable with Cox. The Internet is up 99.9999% of the time. I can’t really think of the last time it has been down. I love that they have continually increased the speed over the years without an increase in price.
I just can’t imagine walking away from all that stability coupled with almost 10 years of friends / family having our existing email address.
If however somebody ever came out with a decent online back up service then I could see using the higher upload speed.
If would be nice to have our 50 GB of pictures backed up automatically.
Have been AWAITING Verizon in my neighborhood for a couple of years….STILL WAITING. Come on, OC city officials….who’s BUYING you out????
I have FIOS and it is great! Had TW before and had constant problems. Now my high def picture doesnt have any pixilation, my internet connection is fast and doesnt go out, and my phone works great. No complaints from me at all.
Waiting for AT&T to get their butts in gear and start competing with FIOS speeds. U-Verse has pitifully slow speeds in comparison.
I can’t wait for the day where traditional TV becomes obsolete, replaced by a fast internet connection that you can choose what to do with. Stream video from a site or not instead of having to hook up to an old style cable box just to watch TV (not that I even watch TV these days anyway, I’d rather have streaming video online from my media server).
Yes, Verizon FiOS is da bomb. Love, love, LOVE the fast upload speeds. My wife is a composer who has to upload large music files for clients, and this makes a big difference for her.
fios was available early but I didn’t “upgrade” from when verizon would be charging me more and providing less bandwidth than TWC vexing though they were with sever non-pebkac problems every 2-5 months with TV or bandwidth
… and then there’s moca
no thanks
ONT.. ethernet to house
proprietary gateway hardware- and firmware “designed by verizon”? no thanks that NEVER ends well.. and why? there are so many mature ethernet appliances and verizon is STILL using moca 1.0
why? yes, hijacking existing coax… but why the hideous resistance to CUSTOMER-REQUESTED ethernet only? That’s not a way to win customers. (hint: that drives them away)
hint: you CAN receive TV, guide data, VOD, and internet with ONLY ethernet from ONT to house…. turn verizon’s you “only need to get a moca ethernet bridge” back on them… it works BOTH ways *smack*
$80/mo for 20/5 fios + extreme HD (all the fluff channels you could possibly not want and all the basic channels to see hand-me-down movies from hbo eventually)
sadly we live in a BPON area. What moron thought that up? [oh we live IN office space INSIDE idiocracy?] GPON please with gigabit ONT!! Sure bitter moca 1.0 over RG6 offers ~230 mbps and is likely a true delight for all the masochists and itards.
^ when fios was a TRUE UPGRADE I shared some words with TWC and left looking back to snicker after a monthly count of the people with whom I have shared my TWC experience… and image that they switched to fios too… my words have a ripple effect… those people share with other people… it would have been less costly for TWC if someone at TWC hadn’t fraudulently billed me and then stuck to their inane, logically indefensible claims. TWC, what does hemorrhaging feel like?
*wave @ TWC*
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moca 1.0/2.x and westell junk et al
gee, fios, what is switch backplane capacity and what’s that got to do with reality? electrolytes? I hear it’s got what plants need.
hmmmmmmmmmm
wtf!!! thats supposed to be fast??
optimum online has 100 mbps
An old post I know, but… Wow. OC is really getting ripped off.
My friends in San Francisco get 100 Mbps up and down speed for $400 per year. Yes, that’s per year. With Verizon, they won’t even tell you what all the extras fees, levies and taxes will be each month before signing up.
This is just sad.