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Verizon: No rollout plans yet for 100 meg


December 11, 2008

Posted by Stephen Hardy

Despite the impression he gave us (not to mention Telephony) during his keynote presentation at Optical Access '08 last Thursday, Verizon Director of FTTP Architecture and Design Vincent O'Byrne did not announce Verizon's intention to roll out 100-Mbps services over its FiOS FTTH network in 2009. So says Jim Smith, Verizon Telecom's director of media relations, in an email we recently received.

"What I and he thinks he said was we'd make the engineering choices and construction to make 100 meg possible; neither of us remember him saying we'd sell it," Smith wrote.

Just to put a cap on the matter, Smith concluded, "It is not on anyone's actual product rollout plans at this point."

Were we (and others) hearing things? You can judge for yourself by listening to O'Byrne's keynote.

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