Verizon began offering its FiOS TV service to 4,000 households in north Sarasota County, offering them amazingly sharp pictures and sound and 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.

Few things in life are more certain than rising cable TV rates, and competition from wireline cable providers is the one way to halt these increases and give consumers choice, Verizon Pennsylvania's leader today told state legislators at a committee hearing.

Verizon announced it's moving ahead with a $1.5 billion investment over the next three years for the construction and deployment of its state-of-the-art fiber network in New Jersey. The announcement came after Gov. Jon Corzine signed into law legislation that streamlines the process for obtaining video franchises in the state.

Verizon expanded the availability of its FiOS TV service to more than 57,000 additional households in North Texas, offering them amazingly sharp pictures and sound and 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 popularity of Verizon’s groundbreaking, ultra-fast, all-fiber-optic FiOS Internet service continues to climb. Data just released for the second quarter of 2006 shows that FiOS Internet customers made up more than 25 percent of the 440,000 net new wireline broadband sales for Verizon.

Verizon expanded the availability of its FiOS TV service to more than 34,000 households in Pasco County, offering them amazingly sharp pictures and sound and 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.

Residents of the Montgomery County townships of Montgomery and Hatfield are a major step closer to having a real choice for their cable television services, thanks to recently approved agreements authorizing Verizon to offer its fiber-optic-powered FiOS TV in those communities.

Malibu residents are a major step closer to having more choice for their cable television services, thanks to a City Council vote July 24 in favor of allowing Verizon to offer its fiber-optic-powered FiOS TV in the community. The council is expected to take up the issue again for a final vote at its Aug. 14 meeting.

With the unanimous vote of the Board of Selectmen Monday night (July 24), Ipswich became the 12th community in Massachusetts to grant a video TV franchise to Verizon.

"Reaching a dozen communities in Massachusetts with FiOS TV in less than a year is a significant milestone for us," said Donna Cupelo, Verizon region president for Massachusetts and Rhode Island. "It means that we will be able to reach nearly 90,000 households with the most advanced TV network in the country. Consumers are demanding choice in their cable TV providers, and Verizon is giving it to them."

Banning residents are a major step closer to having more choice for their cable television services, thanks to a City Council vote July 25 in favor of allowing Verizon to offer its fiber-optic-powered FiOS TV in the community.

Montgomery County, Maryland, today filed court papers in an effort to maintain the status quo that protects the local cable television monopoly from competition and prevents Verizon from offering its FiOS TV to county residents. Verizon, which currently is offering the fiber-optic-powered FiOS TV to consumers in Howard County and much of Northern Virginia, filed a federal lawsuit on June 29 against Montgomery County. Verizon asked the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland to require the county to negotiate a lawful franchise with the company. The following statement should be attributed to John P. Frantz, Verizon vice president and associate general counsel, who is leading the company's legal team on the case.

Residents of the Montgomery County borough of Collegeville and the townships of Skippack and Lower Gwynedd are a major step closer to having a real choice for their cable television services, thanks to recently approved agreements authorizing Verizon to offer its fiber-optic-powered FiOS TV in those communities.

Residents of the Chester County borough of West Chester and the township of Thornbury are a major step closer to having a real choice for their cable television services, thanks to recently approved agreements authorizing Verizon to offer its fiber-optic-powered FiOS TV in those communities.

It's a touchdown for National Football League fans as NFL Network moves to Verizon FiOS TV's most popular programming package in time for the 2006 preseason.

Keeping its eye on amenities that differentiate its properties in the competitive housing marketplace, KSI Management Corp. has chosen Verizon's all-fiber-optic phone, Internet and entertainment services for residents of more than 7,000 apartments in nearly 20 area communities that KSI manages.