Verizon's FiOS TV expansions: August 30, 2008

It has been a pretty quiet week for Verizon on the FiOS TV front, and while a slew of new places were treated to FiOS high-speed internet, just a few locales picked up notices of incoming TV service. Nevertheless, Snohomish County, Washington granted the provider a video franchise, as did the village of Fishkill, New York. Glocester and Smithfield, Rhode Island residents, on the other hand, can place their orders right now should their home be within the service area. We'll see you next week -- here's to hoping your neck of the woods gets covered within the next seven days.

Read - Washington expansion
Read - New York expansion
Read - Rhode Island expansion

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 30th 2008 10:20AM]

They really do spell "Gloucester," Glocester in Rhode Island.

Those wacky Rhode Islanders.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 30th 2008 11:12AM]

Yes, us wacky folk from Massachusetts spell our Gloucester the same way.

Any idea where I can find out when the hell I can get rid of ANY of my Comcast-only services and switch to Fios?

I'm in Boston, and I'm sick of this monopoly.. I don't even get RCN where I live!

/help

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 30th 2008 3:34PM]

No, we spell it Gloucester, and they spell it without the U, which makes them wacky.

Well, so does tomatoes in clam chowder, then calling it New York style even though it's from Rhode Island. Strange folk.

Tell me about it, I'm moving to Orient Heights, no FIOS TV, no RCN. Bad news.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 31st 2008 10:16AM]

Just got my updated channel listing here in Alexandria, VA. Did anyone else get the updated STB software? They added some new features, you can now filter down the channel guide by content.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 16th 2008 1:08PM]

I live in Philadelphia. While some suburban communities have FiOS TV service, those of us who live in the city proper still can't get it. We desperately need some competition against Comcast Cable. The monopoly problem in Philly is worse than other markets. Comcast Corporation owns most of the cable systems in our area, and they also own Comcast Sportsnet which is the regional sports network that carries most of the Phillies, Flyers and Sixers games. Comcast Corp. manages to avoid uplinking their signal to a distribution satellite making Sportsnet unavailable to DirecTV and Dish Network. So for those of us who want local sports, there is ABSOLUTELY NO COMPLETION for cable/satellite TV in our market.