The telco's largest construction project is costing billions of dollars and involving thousands of workers.

The company will use the new video hub office in Erie County, NY, to launch FiOS TV service in western New York late next year.

The telco said it would spend about $3 billion during the next two years.

Last night’s Pittsburgh-Cleveland game was the first covered by a new deal that delivers the NFL Network to Verizon broadband customers.

Microsoft will supply Internet Protocol TV software for the network, which will be rolled out over five years.

Where available, Verizon’s broadband customers can access the service anywhere in the United States and watch live Starz programming.

The network will cover the operator’s New York footprint and be built within the next two years

Scripps Networks will introduce two to three broadband channels in 2005 with plans to launch as many as 10 over the next two years.