The long wait will soon be over for Hamilton and Wenham residents eager for cable-TV competition, thanks to unanimous votes from the boards of selectmen Tuesday night (May 23) authorizing Verizon to offer its fiber-optic-powered FiOS TV in their communities.

Nearly 82,000 residents in six municipalities represented by the West Chester Area Council of Governments are a major step closer to choice for their cable television services, thanks to the council's vote last night (May 22) recommending that each member community authorize Verizon to offer its fiber-optic-powered FiOS TV.

The long wait will soon be over for Wakefield residents eager for more cable-TV competition, thanks to a unanimous Board of Selectmen vote Monday night (May 22) authorizing Verizon to offer its fiber-optic-powered FiOS TV in the town.

More than 36,000 potential viewers in Laurel are a major step closer to having more choice for their cable television services, thanks to the Laurel City Council's vote last night (May 22) authorizing Verizon to offer its fiber-optic-powered FiOS TV here.

The New York Public Service Commission issued May 17 an order confirming Verizon's video franchises in the town of Hempstead on Long Island and in the Rockland County village of Upper Nyack. The town of Hempstead granted the company a franchise on April 4, 2006. The village of Upper Nyack granted a franchise to the company on March 16, 2006. The commission has the authority to review franchise agreements between local governments in New York and TV providers, such as Verizon, to make sure the agreements comply with statewide rules and regulations. Earlier this year, Verizon began offering residents in the Long Island village of Massapequa Park, as well as the Rockland County communities of Nyack and South Nyack, FiOS TV - all-digital services with more than 350 channels, delivered over an all-fiber network. Verizon currently is bringing fiber connections directly to homes in more than half the states where it offers landline communications services, including more than 150 communities in New York.

Nineteen thousand households here can now get Verizon FiOS TV, with amazingly sharp pictures and sound and offering a true choice for subscription television and On Demand programming, via the company’s all-digital, fiber-optic network. Verizon is the only company to offer such a communications network all the way to customers in millions of homes and offices across the country.

The Tampa City Council voted for consumer choice and competition in the cable-TV market by awarding a far-reaching franchise to Verizon for its FiOS TV product, to be delivered via its new, all-fiber network.

The Tampa franchise brings competition and consumer choice to over 333,000 residents in the city and makes Florida one of Verizon's most competitive frontiers for FiOS services.

Residents across northern Pinellas County can expect the local phone company to dig up their front yards soon - all in the name of new cable TV choices.

After months of private meetings, Verizon Communications Inc. has won tentative approval from Pinellas officials to begin a massive digging project to string hundreds of miles of underground cable across the county.

The town of Oyster Bay brought its residents a major step closer to choice for their cable television services, thanks to the Town Board’s vote on May 9 to award a video franchise to Verizon for its FiOS TV service.

The Pasco County Commission today voted for consumer choice and competition in the cable-TV market by awarding a far-reaching franchise to Verizon for its FiOS TV product, to be delivered via the company’s new, all-fiber network.

The Village of Cedarhurst is the sixth New York community to bring its residents a major step closer to choice for their cable television services, thanks to the village board's unanimous vote on May 1st to award a video franchise to Verizon for its FiOS TV service.

Consumers and small businesses can now get Internet connections that leave the cable companies in the dust. Verizon is turning on the afterburners and is offering its Verizon FiOS Internet Service in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut at even faster standard speeds – with no increase in price.

For consumers, the basic level of Verizon FiOS Internet, which provides connection speeds of up to 5 Mbps (megabits per second) downstream / 2 Mbps upstream, and the next fastest service, providing speeds of up to 15/2 Mbps FiOS services, will be upgraded to connection speeds of up to 10/2 and 20/5 Mbps, respectively.

The Montgomery County township of Worcester became the sixth Pennsylvania municipality to bring its residents a major step closer to choice for their cable television services, thanks to the township board’s vote last night (April 19) authorizing Verizon to offer its fiber-optic-powered FiOS TV.

Verizon introduced FiOS TV to this community of 11,500 north of Boston, providing residents with a broad range of programming choices and superior picture quality. Lynnfield joins Woburn and Reading as the first Bay State markets for the company's new fiber-optic television service, delivered over the only all-digital, fiber network that is being made available, on a mass scale, to millions of individual homes and businesses.

The long wait will soon be over for Lake Elsinore residents eager for cable-TV competition, thanks to a City Council vote last night (April 11) authorizing Verizon to offer its fiber-optic-powered FiOS TV in the community.