The unit block of East Slocum Street was closed Friday as verizon workers installed FiOS service along the block.
This isn’t the first time something similar has happened. Last year, we reported on workers putting FiOS in a part of West Mt. Airy. You can read about that here.
The workers placed fiber-optic cable along aerial wires there.
Initially, workers only lay the cable. Another team will soon come in and splice it, and only then will customers be able to call and sign up for the service, which verizon says allows people to receive faster Internet and better television quality in their homes.
verizon is required to build the fiber-optic network throughout the entire city by 2016, thanks to a franchise agreement it reached with City Council in 2009.
That agreement, as reported by FierceTelecom, stipulates that the network had to ensure FiOS covered all of Philadelphia within seven years. The entire project will cost about $1 billion, according to the FierceTelecom piece.
After the cable is placed, it typically takes about six weeks for customers to be able to purchase FiOS for their homes.
Article source: http://mtairy.patch.com/articles/fios-being-installed-in-east-mt-airy
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