Eric, can you give any insight as to Verizon's long-term plan for FiOS? Is it going to be everywhere? Urban/dense suburban only? No clue?
Everywhere eventually, except where local regulations prevent it.
To provide the TV part we have to have regulatory approval in the form of a franchise agreement with the local government, which could be as small as a city or county government. The last numbers I saw (this was over a year ago) were forecasting that by 2012 we will have "passed" half our subscriber base, nationwide. "Passed" means that fiber is deployed and lit, not that a particular subscriber is a FiOS customer, although they could be. Since we began the deployment in 2004, in theory the network will be fully built out by 2020, best case scenario. This is a best guess on my part, not the official position of Verizon, of course.
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