Verizon’s fiber-optic FiOS service will boost its high-definition content five-fold to 150 HD channels. VZ also says it has gotten a better response to its high-end 50 Mbps broadband offering and could move faster towards its goal of delivering 100 Mbps by reducing the number of homes served by each 2.4 Gbps GPON (passive optical network) node to 24.