Fiber-Optic Broadband Is On The Way

    Consumer Reports  takes a look at fiber-optic broadband in it's February issue.

  34,000 subscribers gave Verizon’s fiber-based FiOS service top marks across the board.

   According to the magazine, fiber-optic broadband users were happier with the speed than  cable users.

And they were more satisfied with FiOS’s cost than were users of DSL, which remains the least expensive type of broadband. FiOS also got higher marks for both reliability and technical support than did cable or DSL.

The bad news is that your chances of getting this promising new service today are slim. Verizon’s FiOS currently is being offered to about 6 million homes in roughly one third of the states.   Consumer reports Article

   This service will still be a few years off for most of us so this means that the majority will have to put up with the price gouging from both the phone companies and the cable companies for some time.

 

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