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It’s hard to imagine that up until a year ago, New York City – the city with the best of everything – didn’t have a world-class TV provider. New Yorkers were stuck with old cable TV, and didn’t have a choice of providers. The two big cable companies operating in the city had carved up the five boroughs so they didn’t compete with each other. Another company offered service in certain buildings, but not city-wide. How convenient!Then on July 28, 2008 – a year ago today – Verizon launched FiOS TV across the city, and the citizens rejoiced. Presto, chango. TV competition was born in New York City.
When we opened for business, right out of the gate, we served 108 neighborhoods, and we launched with a market-leading 100 HD channels. Fast forward to today. Soon we’ll have television service in more than 170 neighborhoods. We’re up to 122 HD channels now in New York City, and big cable is trying desperately to keep up.
We’re making good progress on our promise to wire the entire city by 2014, and we expect to reach approximately 800,000 households by the end of this year.
During the first year New Yorkers have come to appreciate the unique features of FiOS TV: a superior interactive media guide, a multi-room DVR, interactivity with their computers and cell phones, features like Facebook, Twitter and ESPN Fantasy Football. Things their old cable companies just can’t do.
Ah, TV competition….it’s a wonderful thing. Just ask New Yorkers.
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Bill Kula
Director -- Media Relations
Bill oversees the Verizon telecom customer experience, consumer bundles, DSL, e-commerce and small business. He helps customers learn about efficient ways to manage their Verizon services.
Maitreyi Krishnaswamy
Director - Product Management
Maitreyi is responsible for Verizon's entertainment products. Check out @VerizonFiOS on Twitter, for insight, thoughts & news about FiOS TV.
Alberto Canal
Alberto is in the public relations group. He loves to share tech, sustainability, feel-good, and random news of interest. A happy FiOS quad play customer, he likes to use his family as guinea pigs.
Deidre Hart
Manager -- Media Relations
Deidre is a member of the consumer PR team and loves to talk everything FiOS and everything football. She’s also a happy Triple Play customer.
Phil Santoro
Phil has been extolling the virtues of FiOS ever since he had his Triple Play installed and can’t image how he ever managed without it. He writes about developing technologies that enable him to fuel his addiction to movies and sports whenever he wants, no matter where he is.
Caroline Wilson
Caroline manages the Verizon FiOS Google+ page, capturing the latest in entertainment, technology, sports and everything in between. She loves using social media and the written word to extend the FiOS conversation.
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