The National Football League (NFL) and Verizon Communications have entered four year deal worth $720 million. This deal makes Verizon Wireless as official wireless service provider of the NFL.
NFL, Verizon deal will replace existing Sprint Nextel Corp. deal and will allow Verizon wireless to deliver live, online broadcasts of NFL Network’s Thursday and Saturday regular season games. Verizon Wireless will also bring certain college football bowl games telecast by the NFL Network and also other programming for Verizon consumer broadband subscribers who also receive the NFL Network.
Verizon will start with Pittsburgh Steelers and the Cleveland Browns matchup on Dec. 7. NFL contents will be delivered on 3G to start with but Verizon will upgrade to 4G in 4G available in 25 to 30 markets in 2010 and in virtually all its 3G-covered areas in the United States by the end of 2013.
Bob Ingalls, chief marketing officer of Verizon, said “Customers who subscribe to video and broadband with Verizon can now enjoy live NFL action on their TVs, PCs and laptops, both at home and away from home. NFL Networks already is a premier part of our video offerings, and we’re delighted to add it to our fast-growing roster of top-quality online entertainment programming. This reflects our commitment to providing consumers more and better choices in video and online entertainment.”
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YES!!! I was shocked when I saw the NFL Shield logo on my Blackberry Bold 9650 VZW cellphone. I was like, no one else can so videos of the NFL but Sprint.
I am always online reading about the latest tech news and don’t know how I messed this.
I was excited and was amazed to be able to stream the NFL Network. I compared it with the channel on TV and noticed the cell has about a 5-10 second delay which is not bad at all. Even plays the exact same commercial.
You all may also want to note this will cost us customers $10.00 a month to watch the video & games on NFL Mobile on our VZW phones.
Yeah you state we will be able to watch it with the VCast Video subscription, but come on, who actually pays for that?
We will now that we have the NFL!!!!! Sucks to be a Sprint customer. It was bad enough to have crappy signal service, now you lost your NFL exclusitivity. Ouch!