FiOS TV Tunes Into Plano By Karen Brown MultiChannel News
4/18/2006 12:34:00 PM http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6325666.html Verizon Communications Inc. has thrown down the competitive-challenge gauntlet, announcing that its Verizon FiOS TV service is now available in Plano, Texas. The regional Bell operating company is going head-to-head with Comcast Corp. in the north Texas metropolis of 250,000 residents. The initial FiOS TV rollout will be available to about 65,000 residents in a section bordering the Central Expressway, with plans to expand that footprint this summer to surrounding Plano neighborhoods and neighboring cities. With the addition of Plano, FiOS TV is now available in 17 Texas cities, with rapid expansion driven by a statewide video-franchise law. By year's end, Verizon will make the TV service available to nearly 400,000 north Texas households, constituting 33% of the state's landline-telephone customers. . The RBOC has so far built more than 3,700 miles of fiber-optic network to support the Texas FiOS TV rollout, including more than 946 miles of fiber line in the Plano area since December 2004. FiOS TV offers all-digital-TV service, with packages starting as low as $12.95 per month for a basic digital-TV offering. The flagship digital-TV package is priced starting at $34.95, offering 180-plus digital channels, 2,200 video-on-demand titles and 22-plus HD channels. ================================ George Antunes, Political Science Dept University of Houston; Houston, TX 77204 Voice: 713-743-3923 Fax: 713-743-3927 antunes at uh dot edu Reply with a "Thank you" if you liked this post. _____________________________ MEDIANEWS mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
