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D.C.-Area Utilities Cry Foul Over Verizon Dig

This seems to have been an ongoing issue with Verizon in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area for at least a year now.

Yuki Noguchi writes in The Washington Post:

Area cable companies say a Verizon Communications Inc. project to dig up streets and lay a fiber-optic network has been poorly managed, leading to rising damage costs and customer complaints as Verizon's crews cut through other companies' lines.

Verizon counters that the cable companies are shifting blame for their own problems in the face of new competition in providing television services.

The battle is a microcosm of a larger fight between the phone and cable industries, as the local companies take aim at each other's customers in a race to grab Internet, phone and television subscribers.

posted by Fergie @ 10/19/2005 05:30:00 AM