Re: [SLUG] OT: 2-30Mb fiber from Verizon

From: Robert Snyder (res03q8w@gte.net)
Date: Tue Jul 20 2004 - 13:50:32 EDT


Chad Perrin wrote:

> Steve wrote:
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>> I thought I'd share this with you as it opens up interesting
>> possibilities for hosting use.
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>> Verizon has announced Fiber To The Premise. Target is 1 million
>> installed before end of the year.
>>
>> At 15Mb it' s priced at $50 per month, if you don't take their
>> bundled phone package. (Which brings it down to $45.)
>>
>> The lucky winners to get it installed this year is Tampa, Florida,
>> Dallas-Fort Worth areas in Texas and Huntington Beach, California.
>> Others have to wait...
>>
>> The service will peak out at 30Mb.
>>
>> I can see running a few of those into my house. Get a diesel
>> generator and put up a bank of servers...
>>
>> According to Verizon they don't mean the Tampa area, only Tampa.
>> Bummer as I live in Clearwater.
>>
>
> I might have to move soon -- further into Tampa itself.

According from what i heard with verizon... Not only tampa but everyone
inside Hillsboro county and according to local fiber techs that I talk
to who work in sarasota that after hillsboro they did have un announced
plans to start in Sarasota and Pinelllas county and have them done by
mid 2006

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