Fiber Optics: Bringing the Next Big Thing to New York

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Gotham Gazette, April 15, 2008
By Joshua Breitbart

On April 15, after months of negotiations, Verizon announced it would file an application with the city's Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications to offer video service throughout the city.If that application is approved, it will be the company's cue to ramp up its installation of fiber optic cables to every home in New York and start offering its FiOS package of Internet, v

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