Verizon FiOS Network To Hit Boston

Verizon FiOS Network will surface in Boston offering high speed television and Internet services.

Verizon Communications Inc. has revealed its plans to expand its FiOS network to Boston. The company is already operating in various small cities close to Boston but now they are finally hitting a new destination which has been on their list since a long time.

The network will be offer faster television and Internet service to the region. The installation process will commence from summers and the mobile carrier stated that it would allot around $300 million for the expansion of the venture over a six year period. The expansion will help in improving the wireless network as well as the fiber optic cables will regulate the traffic from the cellular towers.

According to Martin J. Walsh, the mayor of Boston, the wireless network carrier entry in the region will make it one of the technologically advanced regions throughout United States. Expressing his glee on the deal, Mr. Boston stated, “Boston is moving faster than our current infrastructure that can support, and a modern fiber-optic communications platform will make us a next-level city.”

Boston is immune to technological changes and tends to accept them with grace. Back in 2010, Boston was the first city to deploy the Verizon 4G LTE network. Right after this, the company established its Waltham Innovation Center so that it could launch 4G LTE across the board and initiate the testing and development of the 5G wireless technology.

The agreement signed with the regulatory bodies gives Verizon the permission to expand in Boston similar to what Alphabet Inc. has been doing in Boston with Google Fiber. They will target those regions first that have high demands and gradually cover the entire city.

Via this expansion almost all of the Northeastern Boston will get access to VZ’s FiOS network.  The company launched the FiOS network almost ten years back. Since that time, they have covered above 12 states where they have spent almost $23 billion on the infrastructure.

Most of us are aware of the fact that Verizon’s two labor unions in Northeast are on a strike that is representing almost 40,000 workers. Most of the workers on strike belong to the wireline department of the company. Since last August, these union workers have been rendering their services without a contract.

The unions are now asking for better job security, retirement benefits and healthcare. This might become a hindrance for the to expand in Boston as the carrier needs a lot of help at this point to successfully deploy the FiOS network. One of the demands of the union is to implement FiOS networks in other cities of the United State as well.

But as per the company, it already has a backup where non-union workers will take over the responsibilities of union workers who are on a strike. They also do not have any plan to launch fiber optics in other regions of Boston. It is still uncertain if this venture will pave for new jobs but it will help in retaining the present ones whatsoever.