Verizon FiOS Enhances Bandwidth for Uploads

Verizon’s FiOS TV and broadband service, grappling with slowing growth, is making a big push in an area where it has an edge over cable: Internet speeds. FiOS will unveil much faster upload Internet speeds for its customers, boosting the available bandwidth customers can use when uploading videos or pictures to the Web.

In doing so, the company is seeking to race ahead of the cable industry, which due to technological differences faces bigger hurdles in boosting upload speeds. FiOS says it will make available the same upload speeds as download speeds that its customers already subscribe to, for no additional charge. Before, a subscriber to 50 megabits per second download speeds, for example, would receive only 25 Mbps for upload purposes. FiOS will roll out symmetrical upload speeds for its customers, all the way up to those with the top speed of 500 Mbps.