Verizon faces call to expand FiOS from 14 East Coast mayors

Verizon is facing a call from 14 city mayors on the East Coast to expand its FiOS fiber to the home (FTTH) network into more areas that have limited access to high speed services. This group asked Verizon's CEO Lowell McAdam in a letter to talk about ways the company can more effectively serve its wireline customers and resolve disputes with the Verizon workers represented by the Communications Workers of America and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers who are in the midst of negotiating a new labor contract.

The mayors said in their joint letter that "our consumers have complained that FiOS service is not available to them" and that "there are millions of residents in communities throughout the Northeast who have been left without service, and with no plan or promise for future resolution." In addition to FiOS, the mayors addressed growing complaints that traditional wireline consumers are facing downtime due to claims that the company has not been conducting necessary maintenance on its copper network.