Verizon dodged Boston for years as it rolled out its fiber-optic broadband service into towns around the area, and to other big East Coast cities such as New York and Philadelphia. Now, Boston has seemingly gone overnight from pariah to favored child for the telecom giant, with plans unveiled this week for a fiber-optic rollout valued at more than $300 million over six years.
For the first time, much of the city could finally get a cable TV competitor to Comcast, a big victory for Mayor Martin J. Walsh.
So what happened?
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