BrainStream: New Pics of Will!

Yay! The wife emailed me a bunch of pics of Will's first plane ride and from his trip in CA.

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BrainStream: Verizon: Fiber to the Home

I'm still not sure how to process this alleged announcement from Verizon that they're ready to bring fiber optics into the home. According to some chatter on Dave Farber's Interesting People list, Verizon has announced a new "Fios" service, (which appears to be referred to as FTTP on their site as well), which will bring 15MB/s for only $44.95 a month.

To put this into perspective, I'm about to get a new DSL line for roughly $140 a month that only does 768K, (or .768MB). And at 2MB/s - which is what The Leaky Cauldron will be at with our new host - that will allow us to transfer over 750GB, (or 750,000,000MB) oer month. How are they going to afford to do this? If this pricing is correct, they will blow the lid off cable Internet and the business bandwidth pricing market.

The story is still developing but, if true, we've just moved to a new level with home network solutions. Streaming movies will now be possible at full DVD quality.

UPDATE: It's confirmed. Wow.

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