Brooklyn's Progress
August/September 2007
 
There's no doubt about it – the Internet has become an increasingly ubiquitous and essential part of our everyday life.  It's accessible everywhere – in homes, offices, cafes, hotels and over mobile phones.  More, it's our communications lifeline, penetrating virtually every aspect of our daily lives – e-mailing, shopping, paying bills, making travel reservations, gaming, downloading entertainment, researching information, following the news and even match-making.

Now, another revolutionary change in communications is transforming our lives.  It's all about Internet speed and capacity. And it's called broadband technology.

Today, high-speed broadband is critical to meet the dramatic increase in uploading, downloading and transporting huge data and video files. Just consider that a single 30-minute television program consumes more Internet bandwidth than receiving 200 emails a day for a year!
 
Telecommunications companies are racing to keep up with the demand by building a fiber-optic broadband infrastructure to transport that data and video.  These advanced communications networks are especially essential for economic growth.  Every business sector of our economy - from agriculture to manufacturing to media, entertainment and finance - depends on access to highly sophisticated broadband information systems.

Verizon is in the forefront of meeting that challenge by building the nation’s most advanced digital, fiber-optic network straight to customers’ homes and businesses. This network carries Verizon’s FiOS services, which promises to be the fastest online connections available anywhere, with downstream (download) speeds of up to 10, 20 and 50 Mbps (megabits per second) and upstream (upload) speeds of up to 5 Mbps in New York.

FiOS Internet was recently named to the top five of PC World Magazine’s 100 Best Products of 2007. The only Internet service to make the prestigious list, Verizon FiOS Internet was ranked fourth on the roster of what the magazine called “the finest products and services of the past 12 months … based on exemplary design, features, performance and innovation.”  The service also ranked first in PC World’s latest “Best and Worst ISPs” survey.  Verizon FiOS was the only service to achieve top ratings in each of the survey’s nine categories: overall satisfaction, connection reliability, download speed, upload speed, customer service, technical support, e-mail service, spam blocking and antivirus/security. The February 2007 Consumer Reports also rated Verizon FiOS as best in class.

Watch Out, Brooklyn
What's equally exciting is that Verizon FiOS is coming to Brooklyn. The first stops include parts of Canarsie, Paerdegat Basin, Flatlands, Georgetown, Mill Basin, Bergen Beach, Mill Island, Marine Park and Gravesend.  Other areas are in queue in the months and years ahead.  What's more, as soon as a franchise is granted to Verizon by New York City, these same FiOS high-speed data lines can also carry FiOS video service in competition with the local incumbent cable provider.

What began as the decade of the Internet is evolving into the next-generation Internet – a system of super-speed, high-capacity fiber networks capable of transporting data and video across the street or across the world at the blink of an eye. The Verizon FiOS network also promises to usher in a whole new world of cable competition in New York.  So, fasten your seat belt and welcome to the new world of Verizon FiOS.

For more information or to see if you can get Verizon’s FiOS service, log on to www.verizon.com/fios.