Verizon Wireless announces it will broadcast NFL games on smartphones
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010Verizon Wireless will provide its subscribers with the ability to watch NFL football games, the major telecommunications provider announced recently.
Through a four-year agreement with the football organization, coverage of the upcoming NFL draft and the next NFL season will be available on Verizon smartphones, according to the announcement. Using their wireless phone applications, users will be able to watch live streams of the NFL RedZone channel, NFL Network, NBC’s Sunday night football.
An NFL spokesperson said the increased accessibility and mobility of NFL game coverage provided by the Verizon smartphones will be a win-win for fans, the phone company and the football organization.
"Our fans have an insatiable appetite for football," said Brian Rolapp, the NFL’s senior vice president for media strategy. "We will be able to keep them connected wherever they are on game day but also throughout the year."
The viewing experience will increase in quality when Verizon launches its 4G network, the telecommunications company claims. The 4G coverage will be available to at least 25 markets this year, and will supplement its nationwide 3G coverage by the end of 2013.
Also creating a 4G network is Sprint, which will launch the speedier services in the first half of 2010, according to an eWEEK report.
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March 13th, 2010 at 4:58 am
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April 1st, 2010 at 1:40 pm
Hi, awsoume.Might be a little bit off topic but what do you think about the upcoming cdma iphone? I think it will take away from the “value” of the iPhone.When it first came out everybody went crazy because of the “exclustivity” of having one.Im study economics and this decision from Apple is very uncharectiristc of them.This situation is like buying a wal-mart shirt vs a name brand shirt, if a consumer is given the choice of the two, they will more than likely pick the name brand shirt because it is percived as having more value.In the longrun In my opinion it could hurt Apple. If the iPhone loses its percived value it will basically be considered like the girl who will date anybody(lol).Sorry if I went off topic.