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Verizon is pushing to get its FiOS (Fiber Optic Service), which offers speeds of 100 Mbps, to apartment buildings, rowhouses and other shared dwellings, but for various reasons that effort has been much slower than the rollout to single-family homes, according to the AP.

At the end of last year, Verizon had rolled out its fiber infrastructure in areas with 6 million homes. A quarter of those homes, some 1.5 million, were in multi-dwelling buildings, according to Eric Cevis, vice-president of Verizon Enhanced Communities.

But most of those 1.5 million were not actually able to get the service right away. The company had permission from building owners to sell to FiOS to only 337,000 of those homes.

It's the job of Verizon Enhanced Communities to market the service to building owners. This year, Cevis is doubling his staff with the aim of bringing the number of apartments with landlord approval for FiOS to 654,000 by August.