While cable firms have been winning the war for broadband subscribers, Verizon is launching fiber-optic service in New York City, a top TWC market.

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In some cities, telephone poles not only carry power lines at the top, they carry one, two, or three runs of fiber or telephone cable placed on the poles by the telephone company, the cable company, and perhaps the city itself.

FORBES: Bring On The Broadband With Private/Public Partnerships

Verizon's FiOS is literally at the top of its industry in customer satisfaction and it isn't just the fiber running to the outside of its customer's houses that makes it so great -- although no one is saying FiOS is perfect -- it is the total package including how FiOS doesn't mark any content as Copy Once or marry CableCARDs to 3rd party hardware.

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