Verizon and WeatherBug announced today that WeatherBug has been selected by Verizon as the company's exclusive weather partner for several of its mobile entertainment and information services. Verizon Wireless customers can now receive WeatherBug's live, neighborhood weather via text messages through the Get It Now virtual store, on V CAST Video and through Mobile Web 2.0. In addition, WeatherBug content will be available on certain Verizon Online Web sites serving both FiOS Internet and Verizon High Speed Internet customers.

The WeatherBug Network combines live weather sensors and cameras located primarily atop schools, with publicly available weather data from around the world, to deliver weather information with a degree of accuracy, precision and timeliness unmatched in the industry. Other services attempt to approximate such localized and specific coverage by using readings that are an hour or more old and from airports many miles away, which leads to unnecessary inaccuracies.

In addition to WeatherBug supplying information to Verizon Wireless' array of consumer services, WeatherBug Protect, WeatherBug's flagship weather alerting product for enterprise users, will be available to Verizon Wireless business customers. WeatherBug Protect turns mobile phones into emergency notification devices by delivering severe weather alerts that are unique to the WeatherBug Network.

As part of the agreement, Verizon Wireless' Network Operations Centers and Verizon's field service teams will utilize WeatherBug's enterprise products, WeatherBug Protect and WeatherBug Streamer, to improve operational efficiencies and keep field personnel safe from severe weather.

Source: Verizon press release

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