From CNET: Verizon doesn't simply want to be your wireless provider. It hopes you'll be glued to your phone watching its videos, too.
That's the goal of Go90, the mobile video service Verizon launched in September with clips from YouTube stars like the Smosh guys, the National Football League (with which it has an exclusive deal) and old favorites such as "Mythbusters."
Go90 marks another attempt by an old-school company to break out of its traditional business and deliver you video through the Internet, in this case a cellular or Wi-Fi connection to your phone. Companies such as Dish Network and Sony are offering online TV services, and rival carrier AT&T is readying its own service to be unveiled later this month.
While Verizon is known for a high-quality wireless network and the FiOS home Internet and cable-TV subscription services, the free and widely available Go90 underscores the company's desire to cater to everyone -- anyone with a phone can use the service.
Go90 just needs to get out from under the legacy of failures that have undercut Verizon's past video ambitions. The New York-based company once attempted to take on Netflix with its own online video-on-demand service, Redbox Instant, only to shutter it in 2014. In 2012, it put an end to its own mobile video service, V Cast Video (rebranded as Verizon Video).
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