Tuesday, July 28, Verizon and HBO have unveiled an agreement bringing HBO's online platform HBO Now to Verizon users. HBO's internet-only service will be available to Verizon's digital platforms starting immediately. HBO Now will also be made available to the broadband company's mobile streaming service, Go90, which is expected to launch later this summer, according to The LA Times.
Verizon broadband users will now have HBO Now, a paid service that amounts to $14.99. Previously, the channel's online streaming service has been made exclusive to Apple and Optimum. It has also been rumored to let Facebook Videos stream some of its shows, following the company's foray into the online video business. Verizon said that the service will only be available to broadband users for the meantime, but eventually, wireless internet users, about 100 million of them according to the company, will have access to it as well.
HBO Now on Verizon has a free trial that is good for thirty days. The trial is now available at verizon.com/hbonow. Upon accessing the site, visitors with Verizon accounts can immediately click on the 'Start Free Trial' button. HBO Now can be accessed via iPad, Apple TV, iPod Touch, iPhones, Android phones and tablets, and Fire Tablets.
"Our customers want choice in accessing premium content when and where they choose, on a variety of devices," Ben Grad, Verizon's executive director of content strategy and acquisition, said about the deal.
HBO is the home channel of some very popular TV series, among them the hits Game of Thrones and True Blood. Viewers have requested the channel to come up with an online venue for the shows to be watched. Thus, HBO Now has been launched in April.
The service has been offered in time for the season premiere of the channel's famous Game of Thrones series on April 12.
