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Verizon Pursuing Exclusive Tablet Deal With NFL

by Warren Riddle on October 3, 2010 at 03:00 PM

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If negotiations don't stall, Verizon may add a powerful new feature to its list of services. According to the Wall Street Journal, the NFL intends to transition its games and programming to tablet devices, but -- for now -- there is still "a question of what shape or form." Verizon hopes its tablets present the solution to that question, and its recent $720 million exclusive mobile deal with the NFL may provide a significant advantage.

Verizon would like (as any provider would) to carry every NFL game, which would undoubtedly attract a significant and specific demographic of football fans. DirecTV already offers the NFL Sunday Ticket To-Go plan, which allows certain Apple, Android, BlackBerry and Palm subscribers to watch all of the weekend's games on their mobile gadgets. But, for fans and tablet owners who live in wooded areas or locations without satellite availability (or who are constantly on the move), Verizon could soon serve as the perfect carrier -- well, for a few months during the fall, at least.

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