D.C. Council Gives FiOS TV Green Light
Verizon Awarded 15-Year Franchise for District of Columbia
By Todd Spangler -- Multichannel News, 12/16/2008 8:45:00 AM
The Washington, D.C. city council approved a 15-year cable franchise with Verizon Communications, which expects to start offering its FiOS TV service to residents starting in 2009 in competition with Comcast.
The Council of the District of Columbia on Tuesday passed legislation granting Verizon the cable franchise unanimously (with one abstention). The legislation must be approved by Mayor Adrian Fenty.
Under the terms of the franchise, Verizon will make FiOS TV available throughout D.C. over the next nine years.
“The D.C. Council today has taken a bold step forward for residents who deserve more choice in who provides their pay-TV service,” William Roberts, Verizon regional president for Maryland and Washington, D.C., said in a statement.
According to Verizon, the franchise—as previously negotiated with the District of Columbia Office of Cable Television—commits to nine public, educational and government channels, with the possibility of adding five more; support for those channels in the form of a 3% fee on gross revenues, and an "extensive and appropriate set of customer service provisions."
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I had FIOS in Leesburg before I moved to DC, and I miss it dearly. You can get 20mbits down and 20 mbits up for less than Comcast charges for 16 mbits down and 2 mbits up. Can't wait to have FIOS again!
Alex - 12/20/2008 10:52:00 AM EST -
So Verizon is goinginto the District of Columbia to offer the same service that Comcast already provides it's current customers. Well, I hope that everybody likes paying more for their Cable, Internet and Phone services, because that's exactly what Verizon will be doing to their customers. I'm a Northern Virginia customer and I had their services. You cannot contact billing after 5pm, you have to pay for technical visits, they have no retail centers for equipmetn drop offs...the list just goes on and on. On top of all that I had to pay them $45 more than what Cox Communications!!
Everybody really should check out the cunsumeraffiars.com website and read what every is saying about their services. I cannot believe that they do this to their customers...
Don Watson - 12/17/2008 12:16:00 PM EST -
So Verizon is goinginto the District of Columbia to offer the same service that Comcast already provides it's current customers. Well, I hope that everybody likes paying more for their Cable, Internet and Phone services, because that's exactly what Verizon will be doing to their customers. I'm a Northern Virginia customer and I had their services. You cannot contact billing after 5pm, you have to pay for technical visits, they have no retail centers for equipmetn drop offs...the list just goes on and on. On top of all that I had to pay them $45 more than what Cox Communications!!
Everybody really should check out the cunsumeraffiars.com website and read what every is saying about their services. I cannot believe that they do this to their customers...
Don Watson - 12/17/2008 12:15:00 PM EST
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