Why is FiOS pricing so high? I would expect it to be higher than other fiber providers being one of the first Verizon may not have benefited from some of the same efficiencies that other providers rolling out now have. But the difference in pricing between Google Fiber and Verizon is shocking...
When my promo price ends in a few months my cost per megabit of upload will go from $1.07 to $1.20 and the upload will go from $2.00 per megabit to $2.57.
Meanwhile Google Fiber standard pricing comes in a $0.07 per megabit. With standard pricing that means Verizon FiOS is about a whoping 17x more expensive. What justifies that kind of price premium? I can understand Verizon not being able to offer service at 2x or 3x the cost as Google due to ineffeciencies from rolling out the fiber a few years ago but is a 17x price differential really justified?