PROVIDENCE – Verizon Communications has filed a petition with the R.I. Division of Public Utilities to offer its fiber-optic-based FiOS TV in 12 more Rhode Island communities, making its cable TV alternative available to an additional 158,000 households.
The communities for which Verizon is seeking a franchise are Charlestown, Cranston, Foster, Hopkinton, Johnston, Narragansett, North Providence, Providence, Richmond, Scituate, South Kingstown and Westerly. Verizon said that if the PUC approves, it expects to be able to begin offering the service later this year to some of those households.
Verizon is already setting up its FiOS system, which it calls “the nation’s most advanced digital, all-fiber-optic network,” in these communities, and it is selling its FiOS high-speed Internet service in Coventry, East Greenwich, Narragansett, North Kingstown, Warwick and parts of Providence.
Verizon also has an application pending to offer FiOS TV this spring in Coventry, East Greenwich, Exeter, North Kingstown, Warwick, West Greenwich and West Warwick. In Massachusetts, FiOS TV is available in 37 communities
