FiOS Tucks Into Tablet TV

Verizon makes 75 live channels available through iPad app, but no local stations

By Todd Spangler, Multichannel News -- Broadcasting & Cable, 11/24/2012 10:18:00 AM

Verizon Communications is making 75 live networks available through its updated app for iPad tablets for FiOS TV and Internet customers -- but unlike services from some of its cable competitors, the telco's tablet TV lineup currently lacks local channels.

The telco originally demonstrated live TV networks streaming to an iPad in mid-2010 and expected to roll out the capability in 2011.

The updated FiOS Mobile app for iPad was published in the Apple iTunes App Store on Wednesday.

To use the feature, customers must subscribe to both FiOS Internet and TV service, and must use a Verizon-provided router. Live TV on the iPad is accessible only within a customer's home over Wi-Fi.

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