Tag: Verizon
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Verizon Loses Exclusive Streaming Rights to NFL Games With New Streaming Deal
Today it was announced that Verizon and the NFL have reached a new five year deal for streaming rights of NFL games. Well, Verizon will still be able to stream NFL games on Verizon and the Go90 streaming service they will lose exclusive mobile streaming rights to NFL games. “We’re making a commitment to fans…
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Verizon Gives a First Look at Their 5G Home Internet
5G has been the dream of cord cutters for years. Now Verizon has announced plans to roll it out to several markets next year. For some time though Verizon has already been testing 5G Internet in several markets. Last week they released a video with a first look at what they have been working on:…
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Verizon Announced the First Market to Get 5G Home Internet
5G home Internet brings the promise of fiber Internet speeds without the cost of running fiber to each house. With 5G you will be able to get 5G Internet wirelessly to your home. A dream many cord cutters have had for years. Yesterday Verizon announced the first market to get 5G home Internet: Sacramento, California…
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In The Face of Cord Cutting 21st Century Fox Goes Up for Sale
Last week it was reported that 21st Century Fox is in talks with 3 potential buyers including Comcast, Verizon, and Sony for a potential sale. This comes a week after it was reported that Fox and Disney have been in talks for a possible sale. It is reported the Rupert Murdoc and his sons are…
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Report: The NFL is Working On a New Streaming Deal With Verizon
Yesterday it was reported that the NFL and Verizon are close to striking a major new streaming deal. With the new deal, Verizon will be able to sell access to NFL games on all devices, including streaming players, smart TVs, and not just phones, according to sources who talked with Bloomberg. Verizon will lose exclusive…
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Verizon: No 4G-Level Data Caps For 5G Home Service
5G home internet is the dream of many cord cutters. Fiber speeds without the need to run fiber to your house. Many companies are working on 5G including AT&T, T-Mobile, Google, Charter, Dish, and Verizon to name a few all with the dream of offering home internet. Many have worried that 5G home internet will…
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AT&T & Verizon Are Teaming Up to Build New Cellphone Towers
Increasingly streaming is going wireless and AT&T and Verizon are teaming up to be ready for the demand. Today AT&T and Verizon announced that they have teamed up with Tillman Infrastructure to build hundreds of cell phone towers. “We continue to focus on technology innovation and investing in the latest software platforms to provide the…
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The NFL is Reportedly Planning to End Verizon’s Exclusive Mobile Rights
For about four years, not Verizon has had exclusive rights to NFL games on mobile devices. This means if you want to watch an NFL game on your phone it needs to be done through Verizon’s NFL Mobile app. If you are using a service like DIRECTV NOW when you try to stream an NFL…
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Verizon Blames Cord Cutting For Lost Subscribers
Today Verizon announced their 3rd quarter 2017 earnings and reported a loss of 18,000 Fios Video Customers. In 2016 during the same period Verizon Fios added 36,000 video subscribers.) In response to these losses Verizon’s CFO Matt Ellis, echoing past comments by Verizon execs, saying, “The traditional TV bundle is not long-term sustainable.” Verizon is betting…
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Verizon Delays Their Live TV Streaming Service Till Spring
Verizon Communications Inc. for months now has been talking about launching a live TV streaming service to take on Sling TV, DIRECTV NOW, PlayStation Vue, and more. Recently it was reported that they wanted to delay a few months to evaluate the market. Now according to Bloomberg, they have learned that Verizon now plans to…