Yahoo teams up with Verizon
30 April 2004
Yahoo Search Portal and Verizon Wireless have teamed up to make Yahoo Messenger available on Verizon Wireless' Mobile IM service.
Verizon Wireless customers can now access their pre-existing IM accounts with Yahoo messenger to send and receive instant messages via their wireless phones. Incoming and outgoing IMs will be charged as text messages.
Verizon Wireless Mobile IM allows customers to view, refresh and manage Yahoo Friends lists, create messages using symbols and predictive text, receive instant messages, remain logged in, without incurring airtime charges, hold multiple IM conversations, change availability status, block unwanted messages and get on-screen help.
"Verizon Wireless is committed to providing our customers with the highest quality products and services and we are proud to be the only provider to support all three major IM applications," John Stratton, vice president and chief marketing officer for Verizon Wireless, said. "The addition of the tremendously popular Yahoo! Messenger service lets our customers extend their Yahoo! experience from their computers to their mobile phones and stay in touch with their friends virtually anywhere."
Verizon Wireless' Mobile IM is initially available on the LG VX6000 camera phone and customers need an existing IM account with Yahoo! Messenger to use the service. The service should be available on newer models soon.
Verizon Wireless is the leading provider of wireless communications in the US and has the largest nationwide wireless voice and data network with around 38.9 million customers.
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