Verizon Bringing FiOS TV to More Neighborhoods in the Bronx and Brooklyn

November 10, 2008

By Mike Peters

Verizon announced it is offering a bundled package of FiOS TV, FiOS Internet, and wired voice services to additional residents and businesses in the Bronx and Brooklyn neighborhoods of Schuylerville, Throgs Neck, Edgewater Park, Sheepshead Bay, and Gerritsen Beach, NY. In addition, Verizon is spreading FiOS TV availability to more areas in the previously activated Brooklyn neighborhoods of Bergen Beach, Flatlands, Georgetown, Homecrest, Madison, Marine Park, Midwood, and Mill Basin.

Verizon FiOS TV will be Available to Half-a-Million NYC Households by Year-End

Since the New York City launch of Verizon's FiOS TV in July in 108 neighborhoods across all five boroughs, the company has expanded availability to some 50,000 households, bringing the total number of households with FiOS TV availability to just over 400,000.

"Verizon's FiOS TV and bundled services have gotten off to a rousing start in New York City," said Chris Creager, Verizon's president for the Northeast region. "Following our Bronx and Brooklyn expansion, we expect to move quickly to reach our objective of making FiOS TV available to 500,000 homes in the city by the end of the year."

Limited Time Special Offer for Verizon FiOS TV

By signing up for FiOS TV between now and December 31, residents and businesses in the latest FiOS-enabled neighborhoods, as well as in other New York City neighborhoods that have the service, will enjoy free access for 90 days to three premium entertainment packages plus more than 9,000 free video-on-demand (VOD) titles per month. The packages are: Cinemax, HBO and FiOS TV's Movie Package.

This offer represents free access to 70 premium channels - 40 of which are high-definition (HD) - such as HBO, Cinemax, Showtime, Starz, The Movie Channel, Encore, Sundance Channel, and IFC, and includes more than 1,800 VOD titles. Customers who take advantage of the offer will enjoy access to 800 Hollywood blockbusters per month, HBO award-winning original series, movie premieres, and World Championship Boxing.

Verizon FiOS TV Features

FiOS TV service highlights include: More than 500 all-digital channels grouped by genres such as entertainment, sports, news, shopping, movies and family; up to 100 high-definition channels, with extraordinary clarity and theater-quality sound; an library of more than 11,000 VOD titles, 70 percent of which are free.

In addition, the VOD library includes an increasing number of HD titles, and Verizon plans to offer 1,000 HD VOD titles per month by year-end; an innovative interactive media guide (IMG) that helps customers quickly and easily find and enjoy content from TV listings, VOD catalogs and the digital video recorder (DVR), as well as personal music and photos from a home network; and much more.