The wait is over for more than 10,000 households in southwestern Pasco County as Verizon announces the availability of FiOS TV and the company's popular FiOS triple-play bundles to parts of this area. The services are delivered over Verizon's all-fiber network, directly to people's homes and businesses.

Previously, FiOS services were available to more than 66,000 households elsewhere in Pasco County, primarily in the Wesley Chapel and Land O Lakes areas, as well as other nearby locations. This is the first expansion of FiOS service to new areas in Pasco County.

"We are steadily adding to our fiber footprint in Pasco County and work daily to bring in even more households in the community," said John Ferrell, Verizon's senior vice president and general manager for the Southeast region. "We have been receiving regular inquiries from citizens in and around New Port Richey who are eager to experience the difference fiber can mean in their telecommunications and TV services. I'm happy to say that today we can make many of those people satisfied FiOS customers, with more to follow in the near future."

To date, Verizon has deployed 5 million feet of fiber in Pasco County and more than 48 million feet of fiber in its Florida service territory. More than 450,000 households in Hillsborough, Pasco, Sarasota, Manatee and northern Pinellas counties can now order one or more of the FiOS services.

Verizon, providing FiOS services on the nation's most advanced digital all-fiber-optic network, recently had its FiOS Internet service named a winner of PC World Magazine's 100 Best Products of 2007 Awards. The only Internet service to make the prestigious list, Verizon FiOS Internet was ranked fourth on the magazine's roster of what it calls "the finest products and services of the past 12 months," which were selected "based on exemplary design, features, performance and innovation." Additionally, only Verizon's network has earned the certification of the independent Fiber to the Home Council for providing fiber all the way to customers' homes.

Consumers can check online at Can you get FiOS TV? To order FiOS TV, consumers can call their local Verizon sales office or 1-877-4-FIOS-TV (1-877-434-6788).