Verizon to launch second video system.(FAST TRACK)(Brief Article)

Broadcasting & Cable, November, 2005 by Eggerton, John

Washington, or at least one of its more prominent suburbs, can start watching telco TV this week. Verizon, the most aggressive telco video provider to date, is launching its second system this week, in the town of Herndon, Va., having secured a franchise to overbuild the market last July.

Cox has the cable franchise there. Washington will soon get more telco TV. Last month, Verizon struck a franchise agreement for its FiOS multichannel video service with Fairfax County, the D.C. suburb that surrounds the separately incorporated Herndon. Verizon is working to secure franchises in more than 200 other Virginia municipalities. It is also hoping to get some regulatory relief in the form of legislation that would establish a state or nationwide...

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