Watch Out, Comcast: FiOS Could Be On Its Way to D.C.

Don't go storming in to Comcast's service center in Northeast to return your DVRs and modems just yet, but you may be able to free yourself from the cable provider's ubiquitous grip soon enough. The Examiner is reporting today that the D.C. Office of Cable Television and Verizon have reached an initial agreement to bring the provider's fiber optic network, FiOS, to the District. The agreement, while not yet a done deal, would mean that a handful of residents (those in buildings pre-wired for the service) could have access to Verizon's all-in-one service by early 2009, marking the first new competitor to enter the District's market since RCN started operating in 2005. The rest of us will have to wait longer for the company to replace existing copper lines with fiber optic cable -- a process which will take at least a couple of... [read full story]