It looks like Verizon is shaping up to deliver the usual "bait and switch" trick on its customers by their own admission.
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Verizon-100Mbps-OverSubscription-90104?nocomment=1Verizon themselves have stated that, at least for the time being, talk of FiOS tiers 100Mbps or faster is more marketing than anything else -- acting as a competitive warning shot over the industry bow. The GPON upgrades Verizon is working on will certainly boost network capacity, but substantial 100Mbps+ availability is still some time away.
The company tells Light Reading that limited demand means they'll use the over-subscription model.
That means Verizon is betting that whenever 100 Mbit/s first becomes a reality, the demand will be minimal. "It's not likely that everyone would want it," says O'Byrne. "It would be a small percentage of people in any neighborhood."
But even with network capacity upgrades, oversubscription, and multiplexing, signing up for 100-Mbit/s service won't mean you'll get that bandwidth all the time. "100 Mbit/s isn't guaranteed," O'Byrne says. "If you ran a test on the network, it would read 100 Mbit/s, but if enough people were demanding it, we couldn't guarantee it."
Well I was going to go into rant mode about theives and trickery but this is one of the few cases where honesty seems to have prevailed and they are admitting this up front, well done on that score Verizon but perhaps a small rethink of that "oversubscription model" would please more of the winmx folks at least
