- technology would allow speed up to 10 Gigabits per second (10 times that of Google Fiber)

- Verizon call it NG-PON2 (next-generation passive optical network)

- technology was tested between their office and a three miles away house

- a 2hrs HD movie could be downloaded in eight seconds, aganst 17 minutes in Verizon's current network

Fiber-optic cables, like the ones used by Google Fiber and Verizon FiOS, transmit light signals over incredibly thin strands of glass. Verizon's new technology, the company said, works by "simply adding new colors of light onto the existing fiber." It would be possible, Verizon said, to boost speeds as high as 40 to 80 gigabits per second.

http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/verizon-tests-broadband-10x-faster-google-fiber-n407996

How much and can it be used for games. I don't care about theoretical tech. I care about practical tech.

And yet, the majority of places with high speed will still be stuck with overpriced 50Mb/s connections, and plenty of unluckier places will still be sporting satellite dial-up. It's nice hearing about these fast new connections, but until they're reasonably priced and available around me, I've stopped letting myself get excited.

Only testing so far, so word on price, but if Google fiber is anything to go by, its going to be one pretty penny.

Aren't you americans already being ripped off with internet speed and prices compared to us?

Yes on prices. I'm not so sure on internet speed.

I thought Google Fiber had a one time fee of like $300 to install the fiber box and then it was free for the next 10 yrs or so.  I swear I read that somewhere.

I don't even care how fast it is as long as it's faster than what we've got now and is available EVERYWHERE. Can you imagine how gaming tech is going to explode when mega fast internet is standard? All that cloud and streaming stuff will finally come true.

For now though, this doesn't mean much. If Google Fiber was already everywhere and this was another upgrade, maybe, but right now it's all same-old-same-old.

Yeah, whatever. I'm bloody tired of hearing about how internet speeds keep getting faster and faster in select locations while much of the rest of the country still has the same speeds it had 10 years ago.

Where I live, they even DROPPED speeds, though I was grandfathered in at a slightly higher speed. The price, however, keeps going up and up and up.

No that's the 12mb version. The 1Gb is $70/mth from memory, still cheaper than most of its competitors (that's when the competitors even offerred that speed to begin with). 

Google fiber isn't revolutionary from a speed PoV, what was great was that Google are offering it in areas when the local monopolies were sitting fat dumb and happy offering 1/10th the speed for double the price, and Google introduced the necessary competition to get them to start actually improving services rather than being content to nickel and dime their users for sub-par services.