There are some oddities about Verizon/DTV --
Verizon | - About DIRECTV for instance.
This guy does a good rundown of DTV vs FIoS -- he has both in his house.
DirecTV vs. Verizon FIOS - SatelliteGuys.US
It's weird -- they seem to have some sort of alliance, I'm not sure how the laws work -- could DTV share Sunday Ticket with Verizon without opening it up to all other cable providers? Or in order to keep the contract has to stay exclusive to DTV?