The next stop on Verizon ‘s fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) tour is the Massachusetts city of Lynn and the towns of Nahant and Swampscott.
The additions extend the total number of communities in eastern Massachusetts targeted by Verizon for FTTP to 28. The others are Andover, Bedford, Belmont, Boxford, Burlington, Canton, Dedham, Holliston, Hopkinton, Lakeville, Lexington, Lincoln, Lynnfield, North Reading, Natick, Newton, Reading, Sherborn, Topsfield, Wellesley, Westborough, West Newbury, Westwood, Winchester and Woburn.
Verizon has already announced plans to deploy FTTP technology in 14 states: California, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Hampshire, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas and Virginia.
The company expects to offer its fiber-fed service, dubbed FiOS, to 3 million homes by year-end.
The telco’s FiOS package offers three download speed tiers: 5 Mbps, 15 Mbps, and 30 Mbps.
The cable industry has taken notice of those speeds, and is working to keep pace (or possibly outpace) speeds delivered via FTTP. CableLabs is mulling over a new DOCSIS 3.0 spec that uses channel bonding techniques to ratchet speeds well beyond 100 Mbps.