{"id":83853,"date":"2011-12-12T17:06:20","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T09:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/verizon-ceo-confirms-plan-to-terminate-directv-partnership\/"},"modified":"2011-12-12T17:06:20","modified_gmt":"2011-12-12T09:06:20","slug":"verizon-ceo-confirms-plan-to-terminate-directv-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/verizon-ceo-confirms-plan-to-terminate-directv-partnership\/","title":{"rendered":"Verizon CEO Confirms Plan to Terminate DirecTV Partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[12-12-11] <b>Verizon<\/b> CEO Lowell McAdam plans to end his company\u2019s wireless LTE partnership with pay-TV operator <b>DirecTV<\/b> and will stop its build-out of FiOS television and Internet services during the next two years, the executive confirmed Dec. 8 during a speech at the UBS Global Media and Communications Conference.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;McAdam said Verizon Wireless would seek new partnerships with cable giants to cross-market phone, video, Internet and cellular services.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;\u201cWe have begun discussions with officials at the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) about its $3.6 billion deal to buy spectrum from Comcast, Bright House and Time Warner Cable. The spectrum they will buy isn\u2019t being used and fits well with the commission\u2019s strategy to use airwaves that are being warehoused by firms,\u201d McAdam said during the speech. \u201cThis takes spectrum that had no plans to be put into commercial service \u2026 We will make that commercial in the near-term.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[12-12-11] Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam plans to end his company\u2019s wireless LTE partnership with pay-TV operator DirecTV and will stop its build-out of FiOS television and Internet services during the next two years, the executive confirmed Dec. 8 during a speech at the UBS Global Media and Communications Conference. &nbsp; &nbsp;McAdam said Verizon Wireless would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83853"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}