Verizon intercepts NFL Mobile

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Get ready for some football Verizon (NYSE: VZ) Wireless users, as the largest U.S. carrier has struck a deal to get live National Football League games on its handsets.

The trade is reportedly worth $720 meg over Little Joe days and Verizon subscribers will be able to manipulation their handsets to vigil live games on Thursdays and Sundays – NBC’s Sunday Nox Football and NFL Network’s Thursday Nox Football - as well subject around the clock from NFL Network. NFL Mobile will also spring you access to the cool RedZone Channel, which provides live looks in to close games or scores across the NFL agenda.

“For Verizon Wireless, it is NFL subject delivered over our 3G network so football game fans can extend the upheaval of the athletics long after the shoemaker’s last touchdown of a time of year,” said John Stratton, Verizon’s administrator VP, in a prepared financial statement. “And the NFL subject is customizable in that consumers rich person options from video recording to ringtones to alerts; the pick is theirs.”

The service will go live before the NFL draught in April, and it volition provide live reporting of that event with in-profoundness videos on those drafted. The app had previously been on Sprint (New York Stock Exchange: S) phones and it was bundled with the Simply Everything plans. I used it every once in a while and it was pretty solid. A Sprint instance told Phonescoop it didn’t extend the NFL trade because the third base-largest carrier wasn’t sure if it was getting a great return on investment.

There’s no official word on what handsets this volition come to but it’s safety to assume it volition hit Android and BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM) smartphones on Big Red. There’s no tidings on what pricing volition be but we will know in a few weeks. I promise Verizon just bundles it in with its smartphone information plans because I father’t see NFL Mobile being a lineament citizenry will want to pay duplicate for it. As a free, Verizon-only app, I think it could be a valuable tool for retaining customers though, particularly if it is free.

[Via The Wall Street Journal (subscription link) and Verizon]