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...It added a net 98,000 subscribers to its Fios internet service in the first quarter. The company should take advantage of this win and bundle its broadband and mobile services more aggressively....
...But in its fixed-line business, while it added 43,000 net users to its Fios fibre-optic internet service, it lost 37,000 from the Fios video service as “pressure from cord-cutting of video bundles” bit....
...But the Fios rollout coincided with a change in how video is consumed and paid for. Those are sunk costs, of course, and as such no basis for a decision about future investment....
...It has relationships with many US content owners through its existing pay-TV service, FiOs, which has 90m subscribers....
...It already has content deals with media companies for its FiOs TV service and is cutting more deals for its forthcoming mobile TV offering. So is this a done deal?...
...This service will be delivered “over the top” of traditional pay-TV services including Verizon’s existing video product, FioS....
...At the wireline division, Verizon continued to grow Fios, its high-speed fibre broadband business....
...People familiar with the company’s thinking also say the figures on consumer choice, which date from 2013, do not take into account new high-speed broadband services including Google Fiber and Verizon Fios...
...“Dish Network has just been left standing,” says Craig Moffett of MoffettNathanson, who also casts doubt on suggestions that Verizon Communications, which operates the FiOS fibre-optic broadband, telecoms...
...In contrast, Verizon already has extensive video content relationships through its FiOS TV operations....
...FiOS, Verizon’s other key growth business, added 161,000 internet customers and 140,000 net new FiOS television customers during the quarter....
...However, there are understood to be other potential suitors for the service, and the talks with Verizon, which provides TV services through its fibre optic-based FiOS TV, are at a preliminary stage....
...points: A 55in OLED TV will finally go on sale; an 84in Ultra HD TV is on the way; LG’s smart TV lineup features an improved interface, better voice and gesture controls and new apps including a Verizon FiOS...
...also includes a cross-licence provision for each company’s “advanced television patents”, under which Verizon will pay higher monthly licence fees if the growth of the company’s fibre optic digital video (FiOS...
...In its fixed line business, Verizon added 134,000 FiOS internet and 120,000 FiOS Video subscribers during the quarter which coupled with migration to higher FiOS broadband speeds, helped boost average revenue...
...Verizon launched a range of home automation services in October, initially targeting its own FiOS broadband internet customers....
...David Cohen, Comcast executive vice-president, said his company would not stop competing with Verizon’s FiOS television service....
...Verizon is already a player in the video market with its growing FiOS pay television service....
...Veria has had trouble persuading the largest US cable operators, including Comcast and Time Warner Cable, to carry the channel, however, which is now available through Dish, Verizon FiOS and Frontier Communications...
...Verizon also added 131,000 FiOS TV subscribers, more than the 118,000 analysts estimated....
...In its internet access and TV business, Verizon added 189,000 net new FiOS Internet and 184,000 FiOS TV customers....
...Not so, according to another Douban member named Fio大虾na: “May I finish my Shuhua milk first!!!??” This is so stupid!!!!!!...
...The company added 207,000 FiOS internet subscribers and 192,000 video customers in the quarter....
...The future of the fixed-line business centres on the company’s plans for a superfast broadband network called FiOS that will cover 18m homes, and the infrastructure should enable Verizon Communications to...
...The sports cable network, which is part of Walt Disney, will make the app available to customers who watch ESPN via the Time Warner Cable, Bright House Networks and Verizon FiOS pay-TV services....
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