Verizon Signs Up One-Millionth FiOS Broadband Customer

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Verizon Signs Up One-Millionth FiOS Broadband Customer

6:30 am on June 23, 2007 | Category: Telecom Services, Internet, Television

Verizon Communications has signed up its one-millionth fiber-optic broadband customer, announced CEO, Ivan Seidenberg, at this week’s NXTcomm conference in Chicago.

Seidenberg also revealed that FiOS TV, the digital television component of Verizon’s fiber-optic roll-out, is fast-approaching half a million customers, after hitting 348,000 at the end of March. The service has been rapidly expanding for the past 20 months, and is now available to almost 3-million households in 11 U.S. states.

Verizon hopes to extend its fiber-optic broadband and television network to cover 9-million homes by the end of this year, and 18-million by late 2010.