New York City Sues Verizon, Claiming Broken Promises of Fios Coverage -<br />By PATRICK McGEEHANMARCH 13, 2017<br />Nine years after Verizon promised to make its high-speed Fios internet service available to every household<br />in New York City, the city sued the company on Monday, saying it had failed to keep that pledge.<br />Some city residents have been complaining for years about their inability to persuade Verizon to provide high-speed internet<br />service to their homes, said Susan Lerner, executive director of Common Cause New York, a good-government advocacy group.<br />“The de Blasio administration is disingenuously attempting to rewrite the terms of an agreement made with its predecessor and is acting in its own political self-interests<br />that are completely at odds with what’s best for New Yorkers,” the company said in a statement.<br />“As a result, we now pass all households in the city<br />and can provide service to over 2.2 million households within seven to 14 days of receiving a service request,” said the letter, signed by Craig L. Silliman, Verizon’s general counsel.<br />“Verizon must face the consequences for breaking the trust of 8.5 million New Yorkers,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said in a statement.<br />“We plan to vigorously fight the city’s allegations.”<br />Verizon does not dispute that large numbers of New York residents have been frustrated by their<br />inability to receive the company’s heavily promoted Fios internet and television services.
