Verizon is being sued by New York City for not completing its citywide fiber network. Its failure to finish the job went against a 2008 contract. Verizon had promised everyone in the city would have access to FiOS by 2014.
Going by its own statements, Verizon says it's able to offer FiOS to 2.2 million households in the city. That's at least around a million households away from full coverage.
Verizon must face the consequences for breaking the trust of 8.5 million New Yorkers. Verizon promised that every household in the city would have access to its fiber-optic FiOS service by 2014. It's 2017 and we're done waiting. No corporation—no matter how large or powerful—can break a promise to New Yorkers and get away with it.- Bill de Blasio, mayor, NYC
The complaint filed in the New York Supreme Court also notes Verizon "failed in many instances--believed to number at least in the tens of thousands--to timely completely installations as requested by potential subscribers, leaving such New Yorkers without the desired television service."
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