By Stephen Lawson
IDG News Service, 07/20/04

Verizon Monday announced that its fiber-based broadband service will begin next month, offering up to 30M bit/sec to homes and small businesses and starting at a monthly rate of $34.95.

The fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) service, called Fios, will become available in August to about 100,000 customers in the Dallas area, company spokesman Eric Rabe said. That includes a Keller, Texas, fiber deployment that was announced in May. The service also will become available in two other U.S. locations this year, and Verizon intends to lay fiber past 1 million U.S. homes and businesses in nine states by year-end.

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