DSL

Verizon ups FiOS speed across footprint

Verizon says it will make its top-tier FiOS service, a 50/20Mbps pipe available over its whole footprint, which would make Verizon users some of the most empowered in the western world. The move comes as cable MSOs prepare an assault on DSL in further commercials.

<p>The combination of all of this puts enormous pressure on AT&T, which has no fiber offering.  But it also pressures Verizon to improve DSL services. Verizon reports DSL has tapered down as customers wait for FiOS, and we believe that Verizon will be offering incentives for users to adopt DSL to hold them over until FiOS is available in their area.

DSL services, Internet taxes - goverment action

Regulators didn’t surprise anyone today with their news, but the did relieve some tensions. The Third Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the FCC’s classification of DSL as an information service, and the House voted to extend the ban on Internet taxes for four years. The former ruling was the most instructive because it upholds a relatively generous view of the extent to which the FCC can bend explicit legislative frameworks for competitive regulation to achieve a market goal–widespread and high-quality consumer broadband.