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March 24, 2008

Verizon cable breaches the urban frontier

Verizon's FiOS cable TV and Internet service, available to numerous suburbanites but few city dwellers, is entering Manhattan, says the AP. Last summer I asked Verizon when they would hook up the city of Baltimore. "Stay tuned," a company spokeswoman said. We're still waiting...
From AP's story:

Verizon’s fiber-optic service, so far mainly available to suburbanites, is making a big push into Manhattan with a deal to connect an 11,232-unit apartment complex.

Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village, an enclave of 110 buildings on Manhattan’s East Side, is the largest apartment complex in Manhattan and the largest to get FiOS service anywhere in Verizon’s 17-state fiber buildout area.

Verizon Communications Inc. announced the deal Monday, but seven buildings are already connected. It will take some months to connect the rest.

Single-family houses have been the low-hanging fruit for the company’s $23 billion project to replace its copper phone lines with fiber optics. Connecting apartments is technically more difficult and requires permission from landlords.

Posted by Jay Hancock at 6:36 PM | | Comments (2)
        

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may be if baltimore didn't try to rake every nickel from these cable companies we would have verizon.

[…] On the substantive side, a few legislators got to ask the cable people serious questions. Points for substance go to Garrison (D-Marietta), Stewart (R-Athens), Okey (D-Carrollton), Barrett (D-Amherst), and Foley and Williams (D-Cleveland). [...]

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About Jay Hancock
Jay Hancock has been a financial columnist for The Baltimore Sun since 2001. He has also been The Baltimore Sun's diplomatic correspondent in Washington and its chief economics writer. Before moving to Baltimore in 1994 he worked for The Virginian-Pilot of Norfolk and The Daily Press of Newport News.

His columns appear Tuesdays and Sundays.
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