Verizon planning 2009 New Jersey FiOS rollout in Atlantic / Cape May counties

Verizon already services quite a chunk of New Jersey, but in a recent writeup explaining how cabling was currently being laid to bring FiOS TV to more of southern NJ (Cumberland county, in particular), we noticed that Vineland and Bridgeton weren't the only nearby regions with fiber in their future. According to Dennis Bone, president of Verizon New Jersey, FiOS should also be rolled out in "Atlantic and Cape May counties, beginning in Middle Township, by 2009." If all goes well, the company hopes to have around 300 communities across the state with access to at least FiOS internet, if not FiOS TV, by the end of 2008. Still, one has to wonder when the service will start moving out from the same ole footprint.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 29th 2008 9:05PM]

BS... I don't know what verizon's idea of rollout is. But the only way you are getting verizon fios anytime soon in NJ is if you: a. live on a major road or b. live in a current under construction development. Just because they run a fiber optic line down the middle of the town doesn't mean that fios "services" that town. This is the same in my township as well as my friends townships that they live in. From my house I can see the road with the nice orange conduit on it and I can also see one of my friends new home-construction development which all have fios service; but since I live in an established development "it will be a year or two before we can install" fios, "would you like a subscription to direct tv while you wait" as told be verizon customer service.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 1st 2008 3:54PM]

Tsk tsk. My township has the 5th largest population in the state, and yet we still don't have FiOS.