Verizon brings more FiOS goodness to Cali'

California residents: thinking about "Ditching the Dish?" Verizon's massive FiOS plans for your state just might get the magic of fiber optics to your house sooner than you thought. As of today, the service is now available to an additional 129,000 homes in 12 cities bringing the total available statewide to 350,000. Even if your front yard hasn't been torn up lately to lay new lines, that doesn't mean crews won't be coming to your home as their plans include reaching 150,000 more potential subscribers by year end. With cable being so 1990'ish and satellite throwing back memories of 2001, fiber optic is, well, cool like 2011. Low prices, high speed 'net access, widgets, and 25+ HD stations - nice.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 23rd 2007 11:16PM]

Verizon PLEASE bring Fios to Upper Mahattan New York City already!!

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 24th 2007 12:26AM]

So lame, Verizon brought FIOS to every city around me but mine. So so so lame.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 24th 2007 3:58AM]

Seeing how the world thinks the Southeast is mostly made up of "hicks", I'll just have to wait and see if PowerLine makes a breakthrough. There are PowerLine modems being sold at the Staples up in town, but I haven't heard of the service reaching here yet.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 24th 2007 1:34PM]

1 channel at a time and slow channel changing? No thanks.

This is their HD lineup (about $50/mo).
825 TNT HD
826 ESPN HD
827 ESPN 2 HD
833 HD Net
834 HD Net Movies
835 Universal HD
836 Discovery HD
837 Wealth TV HD
838 National Geographic Channel HD
823 MTV HD
828 NFL Network HD **
830 HBO HDTV
831 Cinemax HDTV
832 Showtime HDTV
833 TMC HDTV
834 Starz HDTV

Pretty much the same as Comcast right now. They are adding Nat.Geo and CW-HD and 1 other in the next couple of months too...

FIOS is cheaper, I pay about $85/mo for cable, but then again I have two HDTV boxes, including a 3-tuner DVR (impossible with 1-channel FIOS).

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 24th 2007 1:51PM]

I wish VZ would come up to the Sacramento area. Anyone know where they are talking about now? SoCal?

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 25th 2007 1:05PM]

Verizon installed fiber in my neighborhood somewhere between six months and a year ago. They had the FiOS Hummer parked in my neighborhood (illegally) and they put FiOS flyers on everybody�s doors, but I cannot get FiOS for some reason. Verizon says it�s not available in my area. Strange.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 25th 2007 4:30PM]

It still doesn't have Sunday Ticket...

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 25th 2007 4:38PM]

Just ordered FiOS here in Huntington Beach, on Friday night with a 4/9 install date. To correct the other posting, FiOS Moto DVR is dual-tuner, with multi-room playback capabilities and 27 HD channels in the Orange County service area. Plus, all digital channels, even in SD, and best of all, near OTA quality HD, as the compression ratio on FiOS is 1.5 or 2 to 1, unlike 5 to 1 or more on Cablevision, or Time Warner. I can't wait for the Dodgers and Vin Scully in HD and 5.1!

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 26th 2007 10:21AM]

I have Charter cable. Who cares about TV quality or channels? I just want a working service with internet. I get all my TV ota anyway.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 26th 2007 3:00PM]

FIOS is available on the street adjacent to our neighborhood. Is it available on our street? NO. That leaves me with either cable or satellite. That's OK, Verizon couldn't run their phone biz properly, why would this be any different?

Bite me Verizon.