Union Group Tells Verizon To Get On The High-Speed Bus

Union Group Tells Verizon To Get On The High-Speed Bus
Monday, February 11, 2008; Posted: 06:52 PM

Feb 11, 2008 (Telecom Policy Report/Access Intelligence via COMTEX) --

-- City busses in the nation's capital are sporting a new message to the District of Columbia City Council from D.C. residents: "This bus isn't the only thing passing you by. Verizon is bringing high-speed Internet to the suburbs: Not to DC."

While Verizon has been advertising its high-speed FiOS network on Washington, D.C.'s airwaves, plans to actually install FiOS in the city are far from the drawing board, and several D.C.-based organizations are calling on the D.C. City Council to push back.

"Verizon's cherry-picking and, at the moment, D.C.'s just not low-hanging fruit," says Jim Pappas, president of Communications Workers of America Local 2336. According to Pappas, Verizon has moved more than a third of its jobs from the District to the suburbs during the past three years, leaving D.C. residents with increasingly poor phone service.

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