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Verizon’s long-rumored reside TV streaming service seems to be having some points.

However no new service ever got here to move, and now Bloomberg reviews that Verizon is concentrating on subsequent spring to attempt its luck within the rising on-line TV market. The report cites technical points, workers turnover, and issues in programming rights negotiations as causes for the delay, and the story notes that that is “a minimum of” the second time the Net-based service has been delayed internally.

Verizon reported its Q3 earnings on Thursday and mentioned it misplaced 18,000 web pay-TV subscribers over the course of the quarter, highlighting the cord-cutting development that’s coercing cable suppliers like Verizon into providing cheaper on-line options. On an accompanying convention name, Verizon CFO Matt Ellis Mentioned the corporate “suppose[s] that it is sensible for [Verizon] to play” within the over-the-top video market, but it surely doesn’t wish to launch “only a me-too sort product.”

“So we’re persevering with to take a look at what is sensible for us to launch one thing that is differentiated in that area,” Ellis mentioned. “Most likely round reside programming. However how and after we launch one thing will probably be TBD.”

It’s not completely clear how the would-be service will examine to current “skinny bundles” like Sling TV, whether or not it will contain a partnership of some type, or how a lot it will value. Previous reviews have mentioned that it will reside individually from Go90, the struggling YouTube competitor that Verizon overhauled earlier this 12 months. On condition that Verizon nonetheless has a stake in preserving folks subscribed to cable, one would think about it received’t attempt to undercut its FiOS TV enterprise an excessive amount of.

No matter it seems like, although, the service will be enjoying catch-up from the leap.