Verizon revolutionizes TV at Home and on Mobile Phones.

Verizon’s new president and chief operating officer Denny Strigl said the company is leading the way in the next revolution of television. “With the strength of our powerful wireless and fiber networks, we have transformed our business into one of the world’s greatest content-delivery systems,” he said. To prove the point, Strigl, accompanied by two of Verizon’s most senior executives, introduced new products that marry the phone, the Internet and television
for consumers in ways not available from any other company.

Speaking on the eve of the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Strigl raised the curtain on two new products that move television to a new level: Verizon’s next-generation groundbreaking FiOS TV and V CAST Mobile TV from Verizon Wireless.

Verizon, the premier global telecommunications and content-delivery company, today outlined the new services. Verizon Telecom introduced FiOS digital media new interactive program guide and a platform that offers the company’s growing base of FiOS TV customers a myriad of multimedia applications linking television, the Internet, personal computers and phones. Both will be available in the first half of 2007. At the same time, Verizon Wireless raised the curtain on V CAST Mobile TV, unrivalled as the first true mobile TV service in the nation, which is expected to be available in the first quarter of 2007.

Strigl detailed the two-fold strategy behind these products, which crystallizes the changing nature of Verizon’s consumer business. “At Verizon, we build great networks and we offer great content. We have built the nation’s most comprehensive all-digital broadband fiber network that reaches all the way into individual homes, while we offer the most reliable wireless voice and data network, period,” he said.

“Our parallel networks of fiber and wireless create a delivery system for the high-bandwidth content of today, and will meet consumers’ needs for years to come,” Strigl noted.