Less than two weeks after getting the green light from the New York Public Service Commission, FiOS TV is now available in New York City.  

Not only that, but with the immediate addition of 100 high-definition channels, FiOS TV customers in NYC now have the most HD in the country....

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This just in! (Wow, it's fun saying that.)

Verizon got its final approval today, from the New York Public Service Commission, to offer FiOS TV service in New York City....

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It was announced today that New York City's Franchise and Concession Review Committee (FCRC) voted unanimously to approve Verizon's plan to make FiOS TV service available to all five boroughs of the city...

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"Verizon's fiber-to-the-home networks offers some clear advantages. Here's everything your HDTV needs to know."

The June issue of Sound & Vision has one of, if not the, most informative, in-depth, and accurate articles on FiOS TV I've seen to date...

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Ever since last year's bendable-fiber breakthrough by Corning -- the glass company that makes the optical fiber comprising the FiOS network -- apartment- and condo-dwellers all over the country have been dreaming of the prospect of getting FiOS...

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New Yorkers are having a pretty good week -- first the historic news that Verizon applied for FiOS TV service across all of the Big Apple, then today's news that all FiOS customers in the Empire State can now get high-def video-on-demand...

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Verizon has filed an application and plan for FiOS TV deployment throughout New York City, with the New York City Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DoITT). According to a news release, this historic plan marks the first time that TV service will be available from a single provider across the entire city...

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After a couple days of excited speculation on sites like BroadbandReports.com, it was officially announced today that Verizon FiOS TV's high-definition video-on-demand service is now available in parts of eight more states ...

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It was announced yesterday that FiOS TV reached the one million-customer milestone. This now makes Verizon the 10th largest cable provider in the country...

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Aaron Saykin, of Pittsburgh's ABC Channel 4, aired a story last night on a recent consumer survey, as part of his "Call 4 Action" consumer watchdog segment...

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