In the US, DSL has been falling behind cable and fiber Internet links for some time and now lopes along slowly at the back of the speed pack. But two of the country’s biggest DSL providers, Verizon and AT&T, have found that their efforts to move beyond simple DSL offerings are now generating excellent growth, even in the midst of a recession.
Verizon today announced its financial numbers for the first quarter of 2009, and the results were excellent for its fiber-optic FiOS system. The company’s expensive fiber-to-the-home network added 298,000 new Internet customers, excellent growth considering that FiOS has only 2.8 million Internet customers in total. FiOS now has 55.5 percent more subscribers than it did a year ago, and it currently serves more than 9 million US homes.
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