RSSVerizon fiddles with FiOS tiers, brings Compaq netbook to US
By Tim Conneally | Published June 23, 2009, 8:17 PM
The United States' largest fiber-to-the-home deployment, Verizon's FiOS Network will be receiving a speed boost and a bump up in price.
The entry-level FiOS tier formerly offered 10 Mbps downstream and 2 Mbps upstream for $34.95 with a one-year contract, and $39.95 for month-to-month. Now it has been bumped up to 15/5 Mbps down/up for $44.99 with the annual contract and $54.99 monthly.
For former subscribers of Verizon's mid-tier, this may look like quite a raw deal. For the last two years, these subscribers have paid $44.95 per month for 20 Mbps downstream and 5 Mbps upstream. Now, entry-level subscribers will be paying 5ยข more for 5 Mbps less downstream bandwidth.
Furthermore, mid-tier subscribers will pay $20 more per month for a 5 Mbps downstream speed boost. Their tier will provide 25 Mbps downstream and 15 Mbps upstream for $64.99 with an annual contract, or $72.99 monthly.
In New York City and its outlying suburbs, this speed is offered as an "entry level" triple-play package for $109 monthly which includes FiOS TV essentials with Showtime, and Freedom Essentials digital telephony.
Verizon is offering an interesting incentive to attract customers to these triple-play packages. New customers who subscribe to the aforementioned package or higher can receive either a free Flip Ultra camcorder, or a Compaq Mini 700 Notebook, which is nearly identical to the HP Mini Note 1000, but was previously only available in Europe.
Sounds like keeping you employed was one of their stupid projects. It must have been a real easy decision to cut you out when they had to RIF.
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|If your going to do anything lower the service tier, lower the price and move on... don't jack up the price and the tier... provide more options.
What are you trying to do drive the customers away??
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|I paid the price of 80 bucks a month for my Verizon FiOS and consider it a bargain. I would like someone to explain how you can have too much bandwidth.
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|What a nasty person you are. I'm glad you were FIRED. I'm a FIOS subscriber, and I'd hate to think that some of the money that I pay goes to your salary. (Although you're obviously uneducated, so you couldn't be making alot of money.) Good luck living in your trailer. Watch out for tornadoes!
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|Whatever you need to tell yourself. If I had an employee with your attitude I'd look for the first opportunity to axe him.
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|Comcast has the habbit of raising the price while removing channels and degrading quality from lower tiers (particularly analog) to encourage customers to upgrade at even greater expense.
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|My old cable company used to up the bill WITHOUT any additional features/channels/services/etc for the price increase. My trash service did the same thing. Yard care service did it too.
Companies sometimes need to raise the cost to offset their costs. Wouldn't it be worse if they just bumped up the price 10 bucks and gave no improvement? I don't like rate hikes, but this one is less deserving of an article than the cable companies who had to increase their rates (without new services) just because their customers went to Verizon.
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|Additional services?? $73/month for 25Mbs?? Do they know cablevision is offering 30Mb for $50/month? Or 100Mb for $100/month?? Yea it's not dedicated bandwdith like FiOS is...but, 300% more bandwidth for $25?? I liked FiOS when I had it, but it's gotten way too expensive, so I switched back to cablevision and I'm having no problems whatsoever, and my bill is lower.
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