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" 1. It&amp;#039;s coming home.  High-capacity fiberoptic lines have been shuttling data around the Internet backbone for years, but only recently have Internet service providers started running them to consumers&amp;#039; homes. For $40 to $160 per month, telephone companies are now offering fiberoptic-based broadband service that exceeds the capacity of their cable rivals. 2. There are two flavors.  Verizon and AT&amp;amp;amp;T are the major players in residential fiber, and each company offers something different. Verizon&amp;#039;s fiberoptic service (FiOS) is a fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) technology, which goes directly from a hub to your home; AT&amp;amp;amp;T, on the other hand, uses a combination of FTTP and fiber-to-the-node (FTTN), which runs optical to your neighborhood, where pre-existing copper wires take over. Both technologies can carry hundreds of channels of television as well as video-on-demand services in both high and standard definition. 3. It&amp;#039;s fast.  FTTN is the slower connection, with bandwidth maxing out at 25Mbps; FTTP can reach speeds of 100Mbps, although Verizon currently only sells service at 5 to 50Mbps. Plus, fiber offers dedicated lines with consistent speeds (cable bandwidth is usually shared between multiple users and can fluctuate). And fiber will get even faster: Future improvements could boost bandwidth up to 400Mbps. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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