Verizon Launch Opens New Service Option in Worcester, Mass. - Government Technology

December 09, 2022 • 

(TNS) — After a agelong clip with lone 1 enactment for Internet successful Worcester, Verizon is launching high-speed Internet successful the city.

The institution announced Tuesday that it was bringing Verizon Fios fibre Internet to Worcester customers, arsenic good arsenic those successful Brockton, Lowell, Everett, Milton, Newburyport and Plainville, encompassing much than 75,000 homes. The work is disposable now, with much homes being added done the extremity of the year.

“Fios benefits Worcester residents arsenic they proceed to retrieve from the economical interaction of the pandemic by offering accelerated and reliable web connectivity astatine a clip erstwhile we proceed to trust connected online services to relation remotely,” Mayor Joe Petty said successful a property release.

Currently, the lone cablegram and Internet enactment successful Worcester is Spectrum, owned by Charter Communications. The institution volition proceed to beryllium the lone cablegram tv enactment successful Worcester. The city’s declaration with Spectrum is acceptable to expire successful 2023.

Residents person agelong complained astir Spectrum’s service, culminating successful aboriginal 2021 erstwhile Internet outages halted distant learning successful the city’s nationalist schools for hours. The School Committee astatine the time demanded much transparency from the company.

In November 2021, residents astatine a nationalist proceeding repeatedly slammed Spectrum’s service, with complaints ranging from precocious prices and mediocre lawsuit work to predominant outages.

A study from the Worcester Regional Research Bureau released successful summertime 2020 suggested that Worcester should power to a municipal broadband system.

Verizon said Tuesday that it invested $750 cardinal successful Massachusetts successful 2021 successful mentation for its expansion, installing much than 1,000 miles of fiber. The institution presently employs much than 5,000 radical successful the state.

The web volition present wired speeds of up to 940 Mbps with nary information caps, the institution said. Broadband plans volition commencement astatine $25 per period and present astatine slightest 300 Mbps. Those who suffice for the Federal Communication Commission’s Affordable Connectivity Program volition beryllium capable to get Verizon location Internet for free.

“Verizon is focused connected delivering broadband Internet service, and the large economical benefits associated with it, to the radical of Massachusetts,” said Kevin Service, elder vice president of wireline web operations astatine Verizon. “From Fios to 5G Home, much Verizon customers than ever crossed the Bay State person entree to high-speed Internet to substance however they work, unrecorded and play.”

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