Qwest Unveils 40 Mbps/20 Mbps Service
Posted by Jesse Ward on Monday, July 20, 2009 · 
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Qwest announced today that it is doubling its top Internet download speeds in some areas, a move designed to cater to the next-generation customer and keep up with competitive cable offerings.
Leveraging VDSL2, Qwest will initially roll out the service in its Denver, Tucson, Salt Lake City and Minneapolis/St. Paul markets. In the coming months, Qwest plans to introduce these services to select areas within 23 markets in New Mexico, Oregon, Utah and Washington. This technology expands on Qwest’s fiber-to-the-node (FTTN) deployment, which has reached more than 2 million customers in its local service region.
Qwest is effectively offering two new pricing tiers. The first tier offers 40 Mbps downstream/5 Mbps upstream for $99.99 per month bundled with a home phone package; an alternative tier offers speeds of 40 Mbps downstream/20 Mbps upstream for $109.99/month also bundled with a home phone. In addition, existing FTTN customers that subscribe to a 7 Mbps, 12 Mbps or 20 Mbps service will be able to upgrade their upstream speed to 5 Mbps for $5.
“Faster download speeds are important, but upload speeds are getting more attention,” said Neil E. Cox, executive vice president of Qwest Product and IT. ““By increasing connection speeds in both directions, Qwest is poised to support user-generated content and simultaneous high-bandwidth applications, like multiple online video streams and downloads or multiple players of online video games.”
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