Verizon Wireless seen offering TV via Crown Castle
Yet to be determined: Whether customers will actually pay for this additional service, or even even want it to begin with....
Via Reuters.
Verizon Wireless, the No. 2 U.S. cellphone service, plans to start delivering live television to mobile phones early next year using a network being built by Crown Castle International Corp., an analyst said on Monday.
Verizon Wireless, a venture of Verizon Communications and Vodafone Group Plc, already sends on-demand news and entertainment video clips to mobile phones as part of its effort to expand its services beyond voice phone calls.
Zachary Research analyst Patrick Comack said in a note to clients on Monday that Verizon Wireless plans to add to its media line-up by using tower operator Crown Castle's network to send live TV to its phones in the first quarter of 2006.
Citing an engineer from Crown Castle and other unnamed sources, Comack said the tower operator plans to cover the top 30 U.S. markets with a live television network and that Verizon Wireless plans to deliver live TV using the network.
Crown Castle or Verizon Wireless were not immediately available for comment on Monday.
posted by Fergie @ 10/03/2005 01:33:00 PM
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