Verizon Fiber Service

I have been hearing a lot of good things about the new Verizon fiber service now available in select areas. This looks to be their answer at declining home phone service revenues and from my perspective will most likely be the savior of this company. For a decent price they will hook up a fiber connection to your house through a special batter backed up box installed in your premise that can provide phone, high speed internet and eventualy cable TV.

With the VOIP providers like Vonage and Net2Phone chipping away at Verzion's customer base and with a lot of people just choosing to have a mobile phone instead of a wire line, Verizon had to come up with a way to keep their customers and start turning many back. Their price point will be key and all indications are that the pricing will be in line with the VOIP competitors and will deffinately be lower for the cable TV portion.

Lord knows that DSL is not a viable long term internet option and with the bulk of their subscriber on the bare bones $14.99 plan, I don't see this option as sticking around lone as it is just too darn slow... it would be interesting to see what the lifetime value of a customer is for this service. Most people I know tried it because it was just such a good deal but then releazied why it was so cheap and have since switched. This fiber connectivity should be on par if not better than most cable modems and will be priced cheaper.

The future looks bright for Verizon thanks to Fiber, I only hope that they can speed up their roll out to avoid being to late to the party!