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the future of broadband Thread
anais.jude:
--- Quote from: Imrahil on March 07, 2012, 02:55:40 PM ---
--- Quote from: Anais.whatever on March 07, 2012, 02:39:48 PM ---As someone who has loved a smart phone and lost it....I will take getting Data Plan raped ANYDAY.
I miss you, iPhone! *sniffle* Ahhh, iPhonely
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If you get pregnant from being data plan raped, Santorum wouldn't let you have an abortion. Just FYI.
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MotherF*%$er!!!
MrTorso:
--- Quote from: MartyS (Gromit) on March 07, 2012, 02:21:40 PM --- I just switched last fall from 3mbps DSL to cable, the real DSL speed was 2.8mbps and just wasn't cutting it for streaming video anymore. I thought I'd have an issue with the 250GB cap but have only come close to it one month so far. Price for 15mbps cable is only $5 a month more than the DSL.
If verizon had offered 6mbps DSL I would have stayed, really only need 6 to do streaming. My line stats were fine for 10mbps DSL but since they put fios in my area they stopped upgrading the DSL equipment, no one can get over 3mbps around here. They really are neglecting the copper lines now. Fios has no cap but even the cheapest plan is too expensive for what I need.
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Yeah I am like 1500 feet too far away for the 7mb DSL. Last month I downloaded about 150GB just from USENET. That's not counting any streaming or ON DEMAND stuff I do with the satellite dish or any of the other web stuff. If I had the fast connection i used to when I lived in AZ I routinely hit 300-400GB a month. Comcast's cap rules are so draconian. They can and will just cut you off. How about an overage fee? Nope. For a long time they wouldn't tell you what the cap was, and until a couple years ago they didn't even have a system to tell you how much you used.
Sideswipe:
--- Quote from: Anais.whatever on March 07, 2012, 08:28:43 PM ---
--- Quote from: Imrahil on March 07, 2012, 02:55:40 PM ---
--- Quote from: Anais.whatever on March 07, 2012, 02:39:48 PM ---As someone who has loved a smart phone and lost it....I will take getting Data Plan raped ANYDAY.
I miss you, iPhone! *sniffle* Ahhh, iPhonely
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If you get pregnant from being data plan raped, Santorum wouldn't let you have an abortion. Just FYI.
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MotherF*%$er!!!
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Your mutant verizon baby is a gift from god! You should be proud to have that abomination inside you.
Henry88:
--- Quote ---After we'd scooped early details on the project in 2010, Verizon earlier this month officially unveiled their new "HomeFusion" fixed residential LTE service. Offering 5 to 12 megabits per second on the downlink and 2 to 5 Mbps on the uplink, Home Fusion will come in $60 (10 GB cap), $90 (20 GB cap) and $120 (30 GB plan) flavors. Each tier comes with a whopping $10 per gigabyte overage penalty -- something that's not going to place very nice with HD Netflix happy households.
Verizon initially announced that the service would first appear in Birmingham, Dallas and Nashville, but today noted it's now live in Terre Haute, Birmingham, Alabama, El Cajon, California, Nashville, Tennessee, Dallas, Texas and Roanoke, Virginia.
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Verizon's announcement also notes that customers who sign up for Home Fusion will receive double their usual data allotment for the first two months "as they settle into using HomeFusion Broadband." Verizon pretty wisely doesn't want early product impressions focused on the second mortgage you may have to take out to pay your bandwidth bill.
Verizon states they're working with Asurion for installs, and that subscribers will have to pay a $200 one-time equipment fee. The press release gives a little more detail on the in-home setup and the "cantenna" which will be affixed to users' homes:
Verizon Wireless’ high-speed 4G LTE network is delivered to a cylinder-shaped antenna which transmits the signal to an in-home broadband router. The antenna is professionally installed outside a customer’s residence and is equal in size to a five-gallon paint bucket. The device delivers Verizon’s 4G LTE signal to the broadband router and allows the customer to connect up to four wired and at least 20 wireless devices in the household.
While it hasn't seen much mainstream press attention, this is a fairly massive play for Verizon, who we've noted for several years has been planning to use LTE for their real national power play for some time. While the service likely won't pose a competitive threat to cable, it will pose a massive competitive threat to satellite broadband (which suffers from slow speeds, low daily usage caps and high prices) and rural DSL, which for many users remains stuck at between 1.5 and 3 Mbps downstream.
Factor in Verizon's partnership with cable and their streaming video partnership with RedBox and you may start to understand the kind of nationwide brand powerplay Verizon's been quietly working on the last several years.
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http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Verizon-Home-Fusion-LTE-Service-Arrives-119016?nocomment=1
Smith Dr John Smith:
$120 for only 30 gigs? That's not much. i means you download more then one or two movies or let's say a video game comes out with a big new DLC level and you are over your cap for the month in just a few days to a week.
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