Verizon Wireless to Launch TV Services

By the Betanews Staff | Published February 28, 2007, 2:52 PM

Verizon Wireless is set to launch its mobile television service on Thursday, according to both the company's Web site and mobile news site RCRWirelessNews.com. The service will be called VCAST Mobile TV and will be available in "select markets" at launch. Qualcomm's MediaFLO technology will power the network, which will be available on two handsets, the Samsung SCH-u620 and LG VX9400.

In announcing the service last month, Verizon Wireless indicated that content would be available from CBS, Comedy Central, NBC, and MTV, among others. The nation's second largest wireless network is not the only one to use Qualcomm's mobile television technology: Cingular announced recently that it also would offer TV services later this year.

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After tearing my neighborhood apart and running 8 months over deadline and over budget, they finally finished laying FiOS here. I'll skip over the broken power lines, phone and cable lines, state fines, repeat digs and inspections, oh yeah, and the crew that spoke no English at all. So they recently hung pamphlets on our doors for FiOS service. So I called. The service lacks what my Cox service provides and costs more. Everyone in my neighborhood is of the opinion it is starting off as a complete failure. I sure hope they can breath more life into it soon. Otherwise, we're stuck on Cox for ever. There is no other alternative at present for us.

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he really loves da lil ole country town that needs to present wealth and prosperity for all parties invloved. queens live in castles and not under motes...dont mind no english the kid speak no english 2

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I didn't smoke enough weed to comprehend that one.

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Grrrrrreat! more waste of wireless bandwidth. As if the television spectrum isn't full with enough crap nowadays.. Now they got to push it over the cellular networks... More jewish-zionist BS crap to rot the brain.. It's bad enough to have people yapping on their phones while driving, now they will be watching the lowest grade of entertainment as well on their cellphones..

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Jewish-Zionist what?

Dude, goose step somewhere else.

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"Grrrrrreat! more waste of wireless bandwidth."
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Don't like it? Then don't use it. And while you're at it, consider taking some anger management classes.

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service is the key...no such thing as perfection...only excellent customer service...his punching bag is just fine for now. thanks for all the love and support

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I'm not a Nazi you moron.. I would expect you to know who really owns and runs the media outlets and entertainment industry.. Count yourself among the delusional masses.. Enjoy your bread and entertainment... Rome is burning..

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You are a nazi if you think "Zionism" is running the entertainment industry.

A) because you seem to think a religion, in this case, judaism, is inherantly evil on its face

B) believing for a second that even if jews did run the entertainment industry, we'd all be doomed to Rome's fall.

Dont be such a douchebag. Jews arent your enemy unless you are strapping yourself up with a bomb outside a coffee shop.

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yep.. another douchebag programmed to think that 6 million kikes were killed during WWII. And you don't even fugging now why Palestinians elect to bomb markets and shops in Israel. Their land was stolen from them.

Furthermore, Judaism is a fuggin evil religion based on the Babylonian Talmud. Why don't you fuggin read it sometime...

Go do a search on Google for `jews running the entertainment industry'..

Oh and further more, most of all the Nazis that surrounded Hitler were in fact jewish-zionists. You sir are a fuggin tard...

go read up on all the atrocities of the jews from jewwatch dot com.

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No sir you are the "fugging tard" The "babylonian" talmud was written by the Jews not by the babylonians. Welcome to the 21st century

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Sounds good, only wish networks in the UK could provide the same decent content americans get.

Josh Chandler
http://www.techoriphic.com

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What?!?!? You mean you don't get Jerry Springer, Maury Povich, Entertainment Weekly and Oprah?

ROFLMAO!

Be VERY careful of that for which you wish!

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Quality entertainment can be stupid trashy tv. Thats why it got so popular, because its entertaining.

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What? What? Got any better ideas :)...you sure talk a good game

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