Verizon FiOS arrives
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Verizon has launched fiber-optic service in Needham. The company's FiOS technology offers cable television, higher Internet speeds, and interactive features that provide local weather and traffic information. The television package includes 180 digital channels, 28 high-definition channels, and 47 music channels. A bundled package with FiOS TV, Internet, and unlimited telephone service is available for $104.85 a month. The service ...
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Agreement with Verizon will allow deployment of a citywide wireless network.
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By JESSE NOYES  Verizon is beginning to sell advertising on its fledgling cable television network in the state, creating new competition for dominant cable provider Comcast.
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By Tom Sowa, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.  Mar. 2--Verizon Wireless subscribers in Spokane can now watch cable TV programming on their cell phones.
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Verizon is the latest electronics retailer to open an outlet that feels more like an entertainment center or arcade then a phone store.
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Verizon, the largest US phone company, will hire as many as 5,000 workers from Massachusetts to Virginia to build a fiber-optic network to 3 million homes by the end of next year.
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Boston's plan to blanket the city with wireless Internet connections is set to pick up speed this month as companies jockey to play a role and a pilot WiFi project gets underway in a square-mile area of the Grove Hall neighborhood.
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Further upping the ante in its effort to steal customers from cable providers, Verizon unveiled out a new high-speed symmetrical plan for its FiOS Internet service. Subscribers will have both 20Mbit/sec download and 20Mbit/sec upload speeds - something that is unheard of in the industry.
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To compete against cable, Verizon is rolling out video and Internet services over its FiOS service, plans high-def video.
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Verizon Wireless is bringing its fastest broadband wireless data service -- with triple the capacity its rivals offer -- to metropolitan Boston and the Providence, Hartford, and New Haven areas, beginning today.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 21  /PRNewswire/ -- Verizon celebrates the first anniversary of its fiber-optic FiOS TV service this week, leading the industry in several categories and adding advanced services that give customers more control over their entertainment.
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(InfoWorld) - Verizon Business on Monday rolled out a nationwide WAN service, allowing large organizations to use Ethernet to connect offices spread across the U.S. Verizon's Virtual Private LAN Service, or E-VPLS, is the first such service from large telecom carriers, the company said. The service, delivered over Verizon Business' existing converged packet network, allows customers the flexibility to adjust their networks' bandwidth from 1M bps (bits per second) to 1G bps, Verizon said. The new service is aimed at companies that want the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of Ethernet service paired with a nationwide WAN, Verizon said. "We have extreme coverage," said Michael Volgende, Verizon Business' director of Ethernet services. "We're not starting from scratch in terms of network deployment." In addition, the new service, available throughout most of the U.S. Monday, comes with service-level agreements that guarantee on-network Ethernet access 100 percent of the time, and 99.99 percent for off-network Ethernet access. The agreements include a mean time to repair of two hours for on-net Ethernet access. By using Verizon Business' current packet network, Verizon can offer a "very strong" service-level agreement, Volgende said. "It kind of demonstrates the confidence we have in the service offering," he added. E-VPLS allows customers to maintain control of their routing, instead of sharing it with Verizon, said Verizon Business, part of Verizon Communications Inc. E-VPLS will allow customers to set priorities for applications through four classes of service: real time, priority, business and basic data. Real-time service is aimed at VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) and digital video applications, while applications like e-mail can get a lower priority. In addition to commercial applications, the U.S. General Services Administration requested the service as part of its Networx program, designed to help federal agencies make the transition to next-generation networking services, Verizon said. The service will cost about $48,000 a month for a typical Fortune 100 customer using E-VPLS to connect six sites spread across the U.S., Verizon said. That price includes bandwidth ranging from 10M bps to 100M bps. The same network would cost more than 25 percent more using traditional leased lines in a hub-and-spoke network, Verizon said.
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Verizon Communications is stepping further into video as a way to compete against cable companies.
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Verizon Communications on Tuesday launched its Iobi service that merges regular telephone lines with Internet-based features such as voice messages available through e-mail and automatic call forwarding.
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LYNN, Mass., Dec. 12  /PRNewswire/ -- Verizon has introduced FiOS TV to consumers in Lynn, Marlborough and Needham, adding 40,000 more households to its growing list of communities where its revolutionary service is available.
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In less than three years since the high-speed Internet, phone and TV service made its debut in limited regions across the United States, Verizon has signed its one millionth customer to FiOS. Nearly 500,000 of those customers also have FiOS TV, which debuted less than two years ago.
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HEMPSTEAD, N.Y., Sept. 18  /PRNewswire/ -- Verizon today began offering its FiOS TV service to more Long Island consumers, offering a true choice for subscription television and on-demand programming via the company's all-digital, fiber-optic network.