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Tech NewsPrivate Verizon Customer Information Leaks in Chat Transcripts
Verizon customers who normally use the company’s online chat system to sort out issues with their service might want to stop for the time being. A glitch is leaking personal information—addresses, phone numbers, and sometimes accounts numbers—in other customers’ chat windows. Ars Technica discovered the leak on Monday, Nov. 30, and alerted Verizon. As of … Continued
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Tech NewsNew York City Is Very Pissed About Verizon’s Failed FiOS Rollout
If you live in New York City, you most likely don’t have access to Verizon’s very 21st-century fiber optic internet service, FiOS. And you should be because Verizon told the city in a contract that it would deliver fiber to every household by 2014. As of today 75-percent of New York City is still without … Continued
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After Billions in Subsidies, The Final Verizon FiOS Map Is Bleak as Hell
As Verizon inches towards the end of its long-promised FiOS expansion, we can finally get a look at all the places these heavily trumpeted fiber cables have actually ended up. Behold the final(ish) Verizon FiOS Fiber map. It’s bleak as hell. The map itself comes from Fiber For All (you can see the full interactive … Continued
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How Verizon Tricks You Into Paying for the Privilege to Pay More
Earlier this month, the FCC voted in favor of a pretty thoroughly terrible proposal that would kill net neutrality as we know it. A proposal that would give broadband companies an absurd amount of powers that they themselves delineated. And a proposal that would give Verizon (and broadband carriers in general) the ability to act … Continued
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Verizon’s Quantum TV DVR Records up to 12 Channels at Once
Verizon’s latest DVR is less set-top box and more home media server: with six tuners and a 1TB hard drive, you can add a second DVR unit to record up to 12 channels at once and feed 10 TVs at any given time. The catchily named VMS1100 is Verizon’s FIOS Media Server, and is part … Continued
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Tech NewsVerizon Now Offering 500Mbps (Down) Internet Service
File this under batshit crazy. Verizon is now offering a 500/100Mbps service tier where FiOS is available. According to Verizon, you’ll be able to download a 2 hour HD movie in 1.4 minutes and upload a 2 hour HD video in 6.9 minutes. Fast, right? Assuming you get the advertised speeds, of course. The newly … Continued
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Verizon Won’t Rebuild Its Landline Network in Some Sandy-Affected Areas
As the damage from Hurricane Sandy is disappearing and some things are returning back to normal for those in the hardest hit areas, six months after that hurricane devastated parts of the East Coast, Verizon is telling some customers that they will not be getting their landline phone service back—ever. At least not from them. … Continued
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Tech NewsGoogle’s Crazy 1000Mbps Fiber Internet Connection Is Out Today
Google’s unbelievably fast new 1000Mbps fiber is finally live in Kansas City today. The service has no bandwidth cap, no overage fees, and it’ll come with 1TB (!!) of free cloud storage. In addition to the blazing broader than broadband internet, Google’s also got a new TV service called Google Fiber Television. The service is … Continued
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Verizon’s Insane 300Mbps Home Internet Is Also Insanely Expensive
We knew it was on its way, but Verizon has now officially announced the new speeds and pricing for its updated FiOS home interent provision. If you can afford to stump up a frankly insane $205 a month, you can now enjoy a blisteringly quick 300Mbps home internet connection. Verizon’s existing top-of-the-line FiOS was already … Continued
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Verizon FiOS Is Getting Insanely Fast 300Mbps Home Internet
Verizon FiOS is already pretty beastly, maxing out at 150Mbps download/35Mbps upload speeds. But because the red god of internet is feeling generous, apparently, it’s basically doubling that next month, with a new top end of 300/65Mbps. That is totally insane and unnecessary and wonderful. The other new tiers shake out to 50/25, 150/65, and … Continued
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The Internet of the Future Will Be Powered by Optical RAM
Fiber optics are the future of data transfer. The problem is that when that light signal reaches a machine, it must be converted into an electrical signal copper-veined devices can handle, resulting in speed bottlenecks. But Japanese engineers at NTT think their groundbreaking optical RAM will allow for an internet backbone comprised entirely of light-based … Continued
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The Best and Worst ISPs in America
Your ISP probably sucks. You don’t need the FCC to tell you that. But a recent study conducted on behalf of the FCC reveals just how badly some of them suck. And the best ISP in America? Verizon FiOS. The SamKnows study found that not only is FiOS meeting its speed claims, they’re exceeding them … Continued
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Verizon FiOS TV Is Finally Getting a Prettier Widescreen Guide
Verizon FiOS, the shining hope in cable and Internet providers, is finally rolling out an update to their guide. The new release, Version 1.9 of the Interactive Media Guide, will bring an updated (and finally widescreen!) guide, an all new search, DVR enhancements, better support for 3DTVs and more. Not everyone will be getting the … Continued
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Buy Verizon FiOS, Get a Free iPhone 4
If you sign up for Verizon FiOS or High Speed Internet Triple Play bundle and buy an iPhone4, Big Red will not only knock $10 a month off your monthly FiOS bill ($5 off your HSI bill), they’ll give you a $200 credit you can apply to the cost of the phone. That’s essentially a … Continued
