Verizon expanded the availability of its FiOS TV service to approximately 30,000 households in Manatee County, including the city of Bradenton, 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.



Verizon has been offering its fiber-optic TV services to 1,000 households in a large service area that the company refers to as Bradenton Bay and that serves both city and county residents. Today's activation added 22,000 more households to those eligible to receive the service. This follows the initial introduction of FiOS TV in two waves earlier this year to approximately 7,000 households in southern Manatee County.

In the months ahead, Verizon will expand FiOS TV's availability to still more households in Manatee County and Bradenton.

The company now has video franchises covering approximately 3 million households in nine states and over 100 franchise areas. As the fiber network is fully deployed in franchise areas, Verizon will provide these consumers with the opportunity to choose FiOS TV.

"Today's expansion of FiOS TV in Manatee County means we can bring a competitive choice to 36 percent of the households in the unincorporated county," said Alan Ciamporcero, Verizon's Southeast region president. "These consumers can now join the industry-leading Verizon fiber-technology revolution, entering a world where they have a cable alternative that provides great value, crisp TV images and the fastest, most consistent Internet connections in the market."