Verizon's FiOS TV expansions: August 30, 2008 {Engadget HD}

Oct 16th 2008 12:37AM I live in Philadelphia. While some suburban communities have FiOS TV service, those of us who live in the city proper still can't get it. We desperately need some competition against Comcast Cable. The monopoly problem in Philly is worse than other markets. Comcast Corporation owns most of the cable systems in our area, and they also own Comcast Sportsnet which is the regional sports network that carries most of the Phillies, Flyers and Sixers games. Comcast Corp. manages to avoid uplinking their signal to a distribution satellite making Sportsnet unavailable to DirecTV and Dish Network. So for those of us who want local sports, there is ABSOLUTELY NO COMPLETION for cable/satellite TV in our market.