{"id":3065,"date":"2007-10-24T20:53:09","date_gmt":"2007-10-24T20:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3065"},"modified":"2007-10-24T20:53:09","modified_gmt":"2007-10-24T20:53:09","slug":"verizon_discove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3065","title":{"rendered":"Verizon discovers symmetry, offers 20\/20 symmetrical FiOS service"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nate Anderson<\/a>: <\/p>\n

Some residents of New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey who live inside the boundaries of Verizon’s FiOS network will be the first to be able to take advantage of Verizon’s new 20\/20 FiOS service. As the name implies, 20\/20 FiOS is a symmetrical 20Mbps connection (same speed in both directions), and it’s one of the first symmetrical services to target the consumer market.
\nAvailable today, 20\/20 will cost $64.99 per month and will include Verizon’s Internet Security Suite and 1GB of online backup (up to 50GB can be purchased at “competitive rates”).
\nSusan Retta, the company’s VP of Broadband Solutions, was quick to compare the new plan to cable. “For more than a decade, the Internet has been defined by how quickly you can download content,” Retta said. “Our 20\/20 FiOS service changes everything by creating an entirely new category of US broadband where ‘fast’ means fast in both directions.” <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We’re a long way from this type of service, unfortunately. AT&T sells us slow copper internet services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nate Anderson<\/a>: <\/p>\n

Some residents of New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey who live inside the boundaries of Verizon’s FiOS network will be the first to be able to take advantage of Verizon’s new 20\/20 FiOS service. As the name implies, 20\/20 FiOS is a symmetrical 20Mbps connection (same speed in both directions), and it’s one of the first symmetrical services to target the consumer market.
\nAvailable today, 20\/20 will cost $64.99 per month and will include Verizon’s Internet Security Suite and 1GB of online backup (up to 50GB can be purchased at “competitive rates”).
\nSusan Retta, the company’s VP of Broadband Solutions, was quick to compare the new plan to cable. “For more than a decade, the Internet has been defined by how quickly you can download content,” Retta said. “Our 20\/20 FiOS service changes everything by creating an entirely new category of US broadband where ‘fast’ means fast in both directions.” <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We’re a long way from this type of service, unfortunately. AT&T sells us slow copper internet services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3065"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}