Verizon receptive to MediaFLO TV.

RCR Wireless News, December, 2005

Byline: COLIN GIBBS Qualcomm Inc. snared its first customer for MediaFLO last week, as Verizon Wireless said it will use the chipmaker's new network to broadcast live TV to subscribers. The nation's second-largest carrier announced plans to use the $800 million network to offer live mobile video services in about half of the markets already covered by its CDMA2000 1x EV-DO network.

Verizon Wireless will be the first U.S. operator to use MediaFLO, which is set for commercial deployment late next year. However, Verizon was careful not to commit to launching its new video offering the instant Qualcomm brings the network online. "Qualcomm expects the network to be commercially available by the end of 2006,'' Verizon Wireless spokesman Jeffrey...

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