Verizon (NYSE:VZ) is launching its Fios Instant Internet service in parts of Boston and the Norfolk, VA, area. The service features symmetrical speeds of 750 Mbps. Verizon debuted the FTTH-based Internet service earlier this month in New York City/northern New Jersey, Philadelphia and Richmond.
"No Internet service provider has come close to offering upload and download speeds like these at such a massive scale as Fios Instant Internet," said Ken Dixon, president of Verizon's consumer landline business. "Ever since we decided to build the nation's largest 100% fiber-to-the-home network 14 years ago, we've been saying that it is a future-proof technology. The future is now here with Fios Instant Internet."
In Boston, the service is available in the Dudley Square neighborhood of Roxbury, and parts of Dorchester, Roslindale and West Roxbury. Virginia residents in parts of Chesapeake, Newport News, Poquoson, Hampton, Portsmouth, Yorktown and Virginia Beach will be able to order Fios Instant Internet.
Pricing is $149.99 a month for standalone service and $169.99 a month for a triple-play bundle with TV and landline phone service.
