I really don't get this place. Seems to be a lot of Verizon "bashing" even though Verizon is doing what people have been asking for for years... providing some competition in the TV/HSI market.
I suspect the big red V had it coming. The following is a quote from the lightreading article (see link user NetAdmin supplied below):
"The only thing that strikes me as out of the ordinary here is that it's usually the other way around," says Heavy Reading senior analyst Alan Breznick. "The phone guys have used public services commissions for years to keep cable guys snarled up, and now Verizon's getting a taste of its own medicine."