3:10 PM -- In an earlier edition of FiOS Tracker we complained that the New York based Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) was showing too much of a Boston bias. (See FiOS Tracker.) Since FiOS Tracker holds complete and unquestioned influence over the telco giant (in our dreams), it should come as no surprise that we've seen a surge in New York communities gaining FiOS TV service in the past week. (See FiOS Grows in NY and FiOS Expands in NY.)

In other news:

• Now more than 87,000 residents of Prince George's County in Maryland have access to FiOS TV. (See FiOS Adds 87,000.) However on Prince Charles's estate in Wales, the outlook for FiOS coming any time soon is still bleak. As are most things in Wales.
  
  
• Only Light Reading could find a way to make relevant mention of Lance Armstrong's unique attributes in a story about telco TV. (See How Will Telcos Avoid Me-Too TV?)
  
  
• Verizon is always looking for ways to add more choices to its FiOS TV channel lineup and FiOS Tracker has a perfect suggetion: The Disco Network. All disco. All the time. With 24-hour content like this, how could you go wrong? Disco is already very popular here at LR as demonstrated by this footage of International News Editor Ray Le Maistre at our most recent office party.
  
  We're pretty sure that was Ray.
  
  

— Phil Harvey, Managing Editor, and Raymond McConville, Reporter, Light Reading