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Verizon eyeing more urban video licenses next year

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Wed Jun 18, 2008 2:59pm EDT

LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Verizon Communications Inc said on Wednesday that it was trying to win more video licenses in cities so that it can step up expansion of its FiOS Internet and video service, and hoped to win regulatory approvals in Philadelphia and Washington D.C. next year.

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Chief Operating Officer Denny Strigl was speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the NXTcomm telecommunications industry conference in Las Vegas.

Strigl earlier said he expects regulatory approval to sell FiOS TV, which boasts multiple high definition channels and competes with cable television, in New York City next month.

(Reporting by Ritsuko Ando, editing by Richard Chang)
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