In Montgomery County, MD they have resisted competition in the video market so brutally, Verizon is actually suing the county. But in Bowie, MD the welcome a new entrant into the market. The folks at HD Beat are happy:

Yet again most of the counties high-def lovers are 'bout to get jealous when we tell them that Verizon's fiber-optic TV service has moved into another community. The town of Bowie, Maryland just brook a bottle of bubbly on the side of Verizon's FiOS service as it launched this last week. This is of course the same service that brings your TV and Internet service to your home via fiber optics instead of copper. That whole area seems to be laden with FiOS as the surrounding cities already have the service.