Verizon adds parental controls, guest Wi-Fi capabilities to FiOS Quantum gateway

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Verizon adds parental controls, guest Wi-Fi capailities to FiO Quantum gatewa
 ean uckle | Jan 26, 2015 11:03am
Verizon (NY: VZ) is giving customers who use its FiO Quantum Gatewa something to smile aout with a suite of guest Wi-Fi and enhanced parental controls.
xisting consumer or small usiness FiO customers that alread have the FiO Quantum Gatewa will automaticall receive the new features eginning toda and over the
next few das.
With the Guest Wi-Fi feature, a user can provide Wi-Fi access to visitors through a unique log in and password the choose, which is separate from the customer's own home
network. The can also create a separate secure WPA2 encrpted network just for guests, allowing Internet access.
The enhanced parental controls will enale residential customers to control how their children access the we and related content with various features: manage children's
Internet usage on each device; estalish controls from the MFiO App; turn Internet access on or o on an device; and set time limits on an device on a dail or weekl
asis.
This new release is the rst of more enhancements coming up for the Gatewa, said John Harroin, chief marketing ocer for Verizon's Consumer and Mass usiness unit,
in a release. est of all, these new features come at no additional cost or eort for our customers. It's another wa we sa thank ou.
News of the new features should not come as a complete surprise as Fran hammo, CFO and VP of Verizon, said during the earnings call that consumers will egin to see
more marketing of this router and its capailities shortl.
FiO continues to e a major revenue driver in Verizon's wireline revenue mix, a trend that continued in the fourth quarter. During that period, the service provider reported
that FiO revenues grew 11.6 percent to $3.3 illion over the same period a ear ago. For the full ear 2014, FiO revenues totaled $12.7 illion, up 13.6 percent compared
with $11.2 illion in 2013.
For more:
- see the release
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