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[#1]

My friends and colleagues in the UK, Spain, Portugal, India, France and numerous other countries have or are getting internet speeds of 100Mb/s / 100Mb/s and 200Mb/s / 200Mb/s.  And their costs are nominal compared to what we pay for significantly slower speeds.

Instead of being proud of the fact that you're offering asymmetrical 150/35 at a price that is laughable it's so high (not to mention you don't offer it as part of a package so one would pay through the nose for it plus the added cost of breaking up their package,) how about taking advantage of this fiber network you advertise every few minutes on television and offer us reasonable prices for services that are standard in many countries.

Please keep in mind that symmetrical connections are much more stable and reliable.  Also, some of us don't consider 150/35 and upgrade from 35/35 due to lack of increase in upload speeds and change to asymmetrical connection which virtually guarantees a slower upload speed despite the advertised same speed.

Thank you.

[#2]

Totally agree, my friends in Korea have much higher speeds than we do; even on their cells.  When they come to visit we seem like a 3rd world country to them.  Its time Verizon gets with it.

[#3]

I agree, but just lowered my speed to 25/25 because anyone I want to send a file, could not receive it at FiOS speeds. Welcome to free enterprise. But we do have some of the best weapons. Shameful! I should know better, and will probably get beat down for my opinion truthful or not.

[#4]

@mschauber.

I am from Spain and lived last 4 years in UK. You dont have any friends or colleague there. Is is not true those speeds are being offered there.  And if they are they must be very expensive.

Standard upload speeds in Spain are about 512 kbps even if you have 20Mb download!!

Also I really doubt Portugal would offer them!!

For example ONO in Spain the cable company offers a maximum 50Mb/5Mb http://www.ono.es/productos/internet/

For the UK: http://shop.virginmedia.com/broadband.html 

Now starting to offer 100Mb very limited areas yet. Not even in my apartment in central London (Zone 1) yet. 

FIOS is the fastest internet I have had in any country of the above mentioned. Upload & Download speed.

Faster is always welcomed but this post title is absolutely wrong.

[#5]

Good post.  usuario74

There are many people in the U.S. that probably state these beliefs, but nice to read first hand experiences. I work for an I.G.O. and it would be interesting to start a blog. I have been a FiOS customer since shortly after launch. If I am able to get an International blog started on this subject in English, I may come here and post a link. We may have statistics available. I will look.

Searching for information on this subject seems to be more geared towards information sharing and education. When researching developing and developed nations, I see stark contrasts between availability of information, technology services, and education. We should be happy with what we have, and explain why we need a 100 Mbps, unless everyone had it available. Now that seems unlikely.

[#6]

And please don't make it too expensive either!

[#7]

I would myself love to get a 100Mbps line here in my home. It would get put to good use here for sure. Yeah, we may not all need the speed right away, but provided the fact that Verizon offers 100Mbps/100Mbps packages for say, $60 a month would be a huge competitive stance against the cable companies. Make that the second slowest tier, with a 35Mbps/35Mbps or a 50Mbps/50Mbps line being the slowest, it's going to leave anything in the dust.

Municipal Fiber in other areas seems to be catching onto this 100Mbps/1Gbps wave, so it would be nice to see a large company do this too.

[#8]

We moved to New York from Hong Kong where there are several ISPs that offer symmetrical Gigabit internet service at prices not too far above what Americans pay for speeds in the 50 to 100 Mb/s range. What's more, HK's fiber-delivered slower speeds (200 Mb/s is popular) comes at a fraction of the price. In US cities with the requisite density for fiber the lack of competition seems to have allowed Verizon to be complacent with its speed menu.

While Verizon's argument that most customers wouldn't see much of a difference if speeds were increased is valid when, say, you're communicating with a corporate server making a commercial transaction or downloading a relatively small file such as a music album, fatter files (like HD movies) would be noticeably zippier. Faster speeds would also allow Verizon to better incorporate true IPTV technology in their television architecture, enabling a more customizable experience with many more choices.

[#9]

@usuario74

I can't speak based on first hand experience but have no reason to disbelieve my friends and colleagues..  Just minutes ago I checked with my friend in Portugal and he transferring a 86GB to my hosted ftp server on a gb connection at 25MB/s.  Yes, you read that correctly.  25MB/s which equals 200Mb/s, which was maxing out his upload.  He was simultaneously downloading a 49GB .iso file at 20MB/s.  This at home, which is actually a faster speed than he has available in the office where he works. He pays the equivalent of $75/month and his provider will be offering burstable service to gigabit by the end of 2011 for only $5/month more.

Like with other technologies (ie: copper telephones,) many countries have opted to skip the lower quality networks and have been building out fiber networks for many years.

We are seeing towns all over the US, not to mention Google, that are running 100% fiber networks and offering bandwidth as high as 1Gb/1Gb.  Why would a profit seeking company like VZN not offer this enmass where they already have the fiber run?  If they want to throw a knockout punch to the likes of Comcast, Cox, Time Warner, etc, they should do exactly what @Smith6612 recommended.

Remember, when you are accessing most resources over the Internet they are not being hosted in residential locations.  So whether 100Mb/100Mb or 1Gb/1Gb are widely available to residences it not an issue.  What's at issue is whether hosting companies and resource providers can support those higher speeds and I can tell you from personal and professional experience that a very large portion of the corporate resources out there can support that.  I have clients that have bonded OC3s are other types of lines that where I can transfer, both down and up, 100Gb files in 7-10 minutes.

But there is no doubt that data transmitted to overseas locations is far faster than transferring to/from partner companies that are 50 miles away.  And these companies are paying through the nose for these types of speeds.

Between our deteriorating education system and our century old infrastructure that is collapsing, countries like Brazil, China and other emerging nations are over taking us fast.  Companies like VZN could help slow that down, but it would be at the cost of lower dividends to their share holders and reduced bonuses, severance packages and retirements packages to their top paid employees (who are the same ones that would have to make the decision.  So it's a pipe dream, but worth asking for.

[#10]

Same with American cell companies, I've heard they Korean and Japanese cell phones are better than ours.