Re: Third World City?
Verizon? Probably. Whether or not any of them were assigned to this project is another question.
NYC? Not a chance.
Given the answer about NYC, the odds on the second part of the Verizon answer are greatly diminished.
While I have no great love of Verizon, the most annoying thing about their rebuttal (or at least the parts El Reg printed) is that it is 100% true.