New York City's desire for more diverse and competitive cable market is still unfulfilled.

More than a year after calling out Verizon for failing to live up to a long-ago agreement to make its Fios service available at all city dwellings, NYC is one again putting Big Red on blast for having yet to complete the project. According to The Wall Street Journal, NYC on Tuesday notified Verizon Communications that it is in default of the 2008 agreement to wire up Fios cable connections across the city; after a year of talks, it still has not made any "meaningful progress."

Verizon, for its part, claims the issue is not its fault. The company did not immediately respond to PCMag's request for comment, but Verizon spokesman Ray McConville placed the blame back on the city, claiming NYC hasn't helped the carrier resolve the "impractical processes for getting access to more buildings."

As the Journal notes, NYC residents living in places where Fios isn't available usually only have just one option for cable: either Cablevision (recently acquired by Altice NV) or Time Warner Cable (which is now owned by Charter Communications), as those companies don't directly compete against each other in most of the city. The hope was that Verizon would build out its Fios network throughout the city, offering more competition in the cable market, but the project was supposed to be done in 2014 and many are still waiting.

A 2015 audit from the city's Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DoITT) claimed there were more than 40,000 outstanding requests for Fios service. Worse, three-fourths had been outstanding for more than a year at the time.

Now, "officials say they could sue Verizon unless the carrier shows clear plans for stepping up installations," the Journal reports. "The notice is the first step in that process." Verizon has 30 days to respond.