Thursday, March 29, 2012

Verizon\'s CEO has a plan for wireless pay-TV, if the federal government will allow it

Verizon CEO Lowell C. McAdam doesn't quite have all of these SpectrumCo AWS licenses in his pocket just yet, but when he does get them he has a decidedly old style idea of what to flood the airwaves with: TV. The Wall Street Journal quotes him saying Verizon and its new cable friends can have "the beginnings of an integrated offering" out by the vacations, so pay-TV customers could watch video on their mobile devices. Though most of the TV services are already streaming video to tablets, PCs and phones, currently most subscription services are limited to the distance of the home's WiFi network, unlike the video on-demand seen above. In keeping with McAdam the aptitude to barter rights for outdoor the house streaming or even busting open the bundles for à la carte programming exist -- provided the FCC and DOJ allow Verizon to finish the proposed $3.9 billion purchase. After all , consumption based billing would still be at the table, so don't start planning your streaming schedule just yet. For now we'll be patient if the professionals of this arrangement outweigh the cons (and the way its Redbox play is blended up on this), or if the pie-in-the-sky NowTV-style elements of the plan are merely being floated to get the deal done.

From WhatNewsToday.net

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