Just got off the phone with Verizon. St. Petersburg isn't even on the deployment schedule yet.
My guess is it could be a couple years. They are in north Pinellas County though and I am assuming they will work their way down. Considering Pinellas is the most densely populated county (per sq mile) in the state, they should have started here first. They completed scummy south Pasco a while ago.
I'll just keep on paying for Bright House and Dish. Verizon has almost as many channels as both of those combined, minus the Voom channels and the Bright House specialties like Catch 47 (which nobody watches I'd imagine) and Bay News 9.
Looks like I can get just about everything I want (Movies, HD, DVR) for around $100 with Verizon when they finally get here. (Not including Internet)