Dan Rayburn

If Everyone Had Verizon FiOS for Broadband, Capping Would Not Be an Issue

It is in Westchester, in almost every town.

If Everyone Had Verizon FiOS for Broadband, Capping Would Not Be an Issue

I feel for you Gaff. Like you say, will be hard for you to ever get the service.

Verizon expects to continue the FiOS build-out through 2010, when the company expects to have passed about 18 million homes. Combine that with some numbers from AT&T and it's about 27 million homes total.

A quick Google search on the number of homes in the U.S. is listed at around 160 million, a number given out by the Census Bureau. If that number is accurate and I have no idea if it is, then that means FiOS and U-verse combined would only reach about 17% of all the homes in the U.S., numbers even lower than your estimate. Not good news for folks like you.

If Everyone Had Verizon FiOS for Broadband, Capping Would Not Be an Issue

Yes, it's not just about the last end mile when it comes to capping, but many of you are suggesting that while the last mile is good, the rest of the Verizon network it's connected to is poor. That's not the case. Verizon's FiOS network is about a lot more than just the end mile to a house.

Verizon's network for the FiOS service is different than the rest of the Verizon network which is evident by the fact that Verizon is doing deals in the market to make delivering video content better specifically for FiOS customers. See: blog.streamingmedia.co...

U.S. Is Neither Lagging Nor Stalling in Broadband Adoption

If I remember correctly, the last report I saw said that the "average" broadband speed in the U.S. was 3Mbps.