An upcoming iPad app from Verizon will enable subscribers of Verizon’s FiOS service to stream live TV over their home Wi-Fi networks.
Per NewTeeVee, Verizon released an announcement regarding several new video applications for its TV and video services. The upcoming iPad app, which is due out early next year, will utilize what Verizon CIO Shaygan Kheradpir called “cloud TV.” Usage will initially be limited to within FiOS subscribers’ own homes.
According to Verizon, the technical aspects for the app already in place, and the last hurdle is the company’s ongoing talks with content partners to work out the legality of streaming to the device. Verizon claimed it should already have streaming rights, since the iPad is “just another screen in the home.”
Kheradpir showed the nearly finished app streaming a live CNN video. Time Warner, the parent company of CNN, has been working together with Verizon to develop the app. While several other content providers are also working on their own iPad apps, Verizon’s efforts stand out because it hopes to offer streaming content rather than offer remote control features.
Stay tuned for additional details as they become available.
One reply on “Verizon to offer live FiOS TV streaming app over Wi-Fi for iPad”
This is funny because 6 months later, they have released their app, and it is just a glorified remote control. Working for DISH for years I have watched the trend in the field towards mobile devices and the internet. Some apps just come up a lot short. I personally use my sling adapter to stream my live tv programs as well as my recording’s wherever I am. Much better Ipad tech.