Verizon FiOS Wants to position 600 Channels of Live TV In your iPad [Verizon]

Verizon is planning to stream live FiOS TV to mobile devices, with a specific specialize in the iPad, the company announced today. The move is a component of Verizon’s ambition for mobile devices capable of equaling (and surpassing) your current television.

As demonstrated today, FiOS customers will eventually have the capacity to browse a channel selection indistinguishable from what they’d otherwise view on their television-though Verizon touted their ” What’s Hot” iPad app, a mosaic view of what other FiOS customers to your area are watching, updated every five minutes. Content can be piped in via WiFi directly from FiOS, without the desire for an intermediary streaming device a la Slingbox. Although Verizon CIO Shaygan Kheradpir was hot on Apple, praising the iPad’s live TV capabilities as a realization of ” why [they] built FiOS,” the company emphasized that their new service could be available across all platforms.

A timeframe for the live TV service remained murky-Verizon reps at the event refused to specify a release by even next year’s time, pinning the delay on pending negotiations with content providers. The company was murkier still on the policy implications of the service on the subject of recent net neutrality turmoil-as the concept of a dedicated mobile television service for FiOS customers resonates with anyone who feared the Google/Verizon proposal cleared the way in which for a non-neutral ” second-internet.” No comment was given on whether you’d have the ability to, say, watch TV in your iPad over your girlfriend’s connect, in case you’re a FiOS subscriber but she isn’t. The company stated that ” ideally,” rival ISPs wouldn’t be discriminated against, but refused to comment further.

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