Big news from Verizon today: they've expanded their top FiOS Internet speeds of up to 50 megabits-per-second downstream, and up to 20 megabits-per-second upstream, to ALL of their service footprint. So, anywhere you can get FiOS, you now can get 50 down, 20 up.

But what if you don't know your bits from your bytes and want to know, in plain English, what all that crazy Internet speed really means?...

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A new site launched this week, FiOS TV Central (www.verizon.com/fiostvcentral), gives FiOS TV subscribers access to their local listings, current video-on-demand trailers and more, in an interface that has a similar look and feel to their already-familiar Interactive Media Guide...

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Oregon blogger, family man and self-professed geek Jim Goings switched from Comcast to FiOS last week, and has posted an insightful "real world comparison and review." ...

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For once, "fine print" ended up actually heralding something great...

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Check out the speed test results posted by blogger, philanthropist and fellow Rolling Stones fan Fragzem today....

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Aaron Saykin, of Pittsburgh's ABC Channel 4, aired a story last night on a recent consumer survey, as part of his "Call 4 Action" consumer watchdog segment...

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Well, if this isn't an application that seems tailor-made for the unmatchable, lag-free speed potential of FiOS, I don't know what is....

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Tech blogger Mathew Collins of onovia.com did comparative speed tests of Comcast and FiOS....

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I'd like to think the tongue-in-cheek blog I wrote a couple months ago had something to do with it...

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Today's the day lots of broadband analysts have been waiting for with baited breath for months...

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