Verizon beefs up network, expands FiOS in Hampton Roads, VA

by Darren Murph, posted May 7th 2008 at 3:58PM

Look out Cox -- you aren't the only television provider in the Hampton Roads, Virginia area expanding your network. As it's done so many times before, Verizon has announced its intentions to string its fiber optic-based network to more of the Hampton Roads area, and as if that weren't enough, it'll be upgrading systems in Hampton, Portsmouth, Poquoson and York counties while continuing work in Chesapeake, Newport News and Virginia Beach. Of course, it still has to garner the appropriate cable franchises from a number of locales, but at least those frustrated by limited options can count on one more arriving in the not-so-distant future.

Filed under: Fiber

Tags: expansion, fios, fios tv, FiosTv, hampton, hampton roads, HamptonRoads, infrastructure, network, verizon, virginia

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Martin @ May 7th 2008 8:27PM

Norfolk! Norfolk! Norfolk! Norfolk! I mean come on Verizon! You have EVERY city in Hampton Roads EXCEPT Norfolk! Norfolk is the major hub in this area anyway.

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Don @ Jun 14th 2008 2:47PM

Yeah -- I have given up on their bait-and-switch. As somebody who shovels over $100 to Verizon for mediocre access (I pay for more DSL than I get, because I am 20 feet too far from the switch), and over $100 to Cox for below mediocre service (I have to get a digital box to get analog channels -- techs come out and say it doesn't make sense, but for 5 years they haven't been able to fix it).

Cavalier is starting to look good and that is scary. Of course, I am pretty sure that Cox (who has their hand up the city of Norfolk's @$$ like a puppetmaster) is orchestrating the bulk of the resistance. I hope that whole company explodes like the flaming ball of superheated excrement that they are.

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