Yesterday we mentioned that users in some Verizon territories were starting to see a 7Mbps residential tier being made available to new customers, but only in some eastern states. At the moment, the fastest option available to most DSL users out of the range of FiOS is 3Mbps -- unless users sign up for a 7Mbps business-class line.

While the telco is usually tight-lipped about new deployment plans, they did tell us that "we’ll be making an announcement about this at some point." They're not ready to chat about it in detail on the record yet; our guess is it's in testing and you should see broader deployment sometime next year.