Verizon Wireless to launch ESPN sports on mobile phones

Soon US customers would be able to watch ESPN sports programs on their mobile phones. Verizon Wireless, the second biggest U.S. mobile phone service announced that the company will soon launch ESPN sports applications on its VCast service. Verizon Communications has partnered with Vodafone Group to provide this service in mobile phones. The service, ESPN MVP allows sports fan to get news, scores, video highlights, alerts for scoring updates and other sports related content. The application will also offer other exclusive features, like team management, which will allow subscribers to update players and teams from their cell phones. The service also includes ESPN Insider and ESPN BottomLine content. Subscribers of Verizon’s VCast V Pak, which provides unlimited data usage for $15 a month, would be able to access the ESPN MVP service with paying any additional charges. While subscribers of he $3-a-day VCast pass would not be to access the service. Users can simply download the service from Verizon’s Get It Now service. Initially, the ESPN MVP would be available on the LG Chocolate, the LG VX8300, LG VX8600, the Motorola Razr V3c and V3m and MotoKrzr K1m. Later on, Verizon will offer the service to other phones also. ESPN is already providing the Mobile ESPN application to other mobile operators, like Sprint Nextel. ESPN also maintains a Wireless Application Protocol, or WAP, site that anyone with mobile browser and connection to a wireless data network can access. Image Credit: Playfuls & Baig Via: Reuters

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