Verizon intros 150Mbps broadband on Fios
Verizon Communications is now offering its Fios customers a new service that delivers 150Mbps download speeds and uploads of 35 Mbps.
The company announced today that consumers in its Fios fiber-to-the-home territory are now eligible for the new service. Small-business customers will be eligible for the service by the end of the year. Verizon has been pushing the envelope in terms of broadband speeds since it began offering the fiber-to-the-home Fios service. The faster broadband is overkill for most people, but Verizon said that speeds such as these will be necessary as Americans adopt more bandwidth-intensive activities such as 3D video streaming.
The company said that with the 150Mbps download speeds, a two-hour, high-definition movie could be downloaded in four and a half minutes. Downloading 20 high-resolution photographs (100MB) would take less than five and a half seconds using the 150/35 Mbps service. And the 35Mbps upstream speed would allow users to upload those same 20 high-resolution photos in less than 23 seconds.
