Verizon Switches On Speedier DSL

7 Sep, 2004 at 8:41pm ET Article published in Tech

Telephone company Verizon Communications has introduced a faster consumer broadband service to win over online gamers, at-home workers and other customers with high-bandwidth desires.

For $40 a month, the new DSL service promises data downloads of up to 3 megabits per second and uploads of 786 megabits per second, Verizon said Tuesday. Customers in 12 East Coast states and Washington, D.C., are the first to be offered the service in addition to the Verizon’s existing 1.5mbps plan, which costs $30 a month. Depending on the success of the 3mbps plan, Verizon may offer even faster connections to the Internet, company representative Briana Gowing said.

Source: c|net

Comments

7 Sep 2004 ~ 8:44pm BlackHawk Verizon hasn't done a damn thing here in PR. For $40, we get 256/128. :bawling:
7 Sep 2004 ~ 9:35pm entropy Wait, wait. 786 MEGAbits?!
8 Sep 2004 ~ 8:19am mmonnin Yeah thats a max of 98k up.
8 Sep 2004 ~ 10:07am a2jfreak No, that would be a max up 98 MegaBytes up . . . I think 786 kbits is what was meant.
8 Sep 2004 ~ 6:23pm entropy

a2jfreak wrote:

No, that would be a max up 98 MegaBytes up . . . I think 786 kbits is what was meant.

That's what I'm assuming ... or hoping, rather. If there were speeds like that ... on UPLOAD ... I'd probably crap myself.
8 Sep 2004 ~ 7:32pm RWB HAHA, imagine that? You could host CNN and more at the same time with that kind of connection.