[opendtv] Verizon launches major push to bring Internet, TV services to apartments, condos
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 11:19:32 -0500
Maybe cable will get competition in the virtual monopoly it has for
apartments complexes.
Bert
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March 08, 2006
Verizon launches major push to bring Internet, TV services to
apartments, condos
By Antone Gonsalves
Verizon Communications Inc. on Wednesday launched a major campaign to
expand its FiOS Internet and TV services to people living in apartments
and condos.
The New York-based telecommunications company said the project would
include sending business development executives and engineers to meet
with condo/co-op associations and owners of apartment buildings to
negotiate access agreements.
Verizon plans to concentrate sales efforts in those parts of the 16
states where it is building out its fiber-optic network. In the last six
months of 2005, the company signed right-of-way agreements covering more
than 57,000 units, executives said. The company estimates the potential
market equals about a fifth of its customer base.
"We are intensifying our effort, begun last year, to get FiOS services
into the MDUs (multi-dwelling units), and we expect this year to dwarf
last year's MDU sales penetration," Eric Cevis, vice president of
Verizon's Enhanced Communities group, said in a statement.
In delivering the service, new fiber or existing cabling and wiring can
be used, Verizon said.
The company also announced on Wednesday that it has completed the
retrofitting of Huntington Landmark, a 1,238-unit senior citizens
complex in Huntington Beach, Calif., with fiber optics. The deal
included a limited marketing agreement with the owner to offer FiOS
services to residents.
Verizon and other telecommunications companies are battling with cable
operators to deliver to consumers what's called a "triple play,"
telephone, TV and Internet services in a single package.
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