Verizon FiOS TV Adds Quarter-Million New Customers

Verizon said yesterday that it added 263,000 new FiOS TV subscribers in the first quarter of 2008, bringing its total to 1.2 million. Verizon is now the nation's 9th-largest cable company according to Multichannel News, and is just behind Mediacom and Suddenlink, both of which it will likely surpass this quarter.