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 Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2011 12:51 am Post subject: Verizon Said Not to Have Talked Netflix Offer |
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Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ), the second-largest U.S. phone company, hasn’t discussed making a bid for Netflix Inc. (NFLX), according to two people with knowledge of the situation.
The two companies haven’t held talks about a transaction, said the people, who asked not to be named because the matter is private.
Netflix gained 6.2 percent yesterday in New York trading after Deal Reporter, a trade publication, said that New York- based Verizon is considering an offer for the Los Gatos, California-based movie streaming service. The publication didn’t identify its sources. Porter Bibb, managing partner at Mediatech Capital Partners, said yesterday that Verizon may bid for Netflix or a rival.
“I am hearing rumblings from inside Verizon that they are very serious about either Netflix or something similar,” Bibb said in a television interview yesterday on “Bloomberg West,” citing unnamed people within Verizon. He didn’t identify them.
Bibb said he is not working for either company. Netflix was a client in the past, he said today.
Steve Swasey, a Netflix spokesman, and Torod Neptune, a spokesman for Verizon, declined to comment on the reports.
Netflix, which offers subscriptions for video streaming and DVDs by mail, rose 1.2 percent to $76.13 at 11:23 a.m. in New York trading. The shares have fallen 57 percent this year before today. Verizon added 0.1 percent to $38.38 and has advanced 7.2 percent this year before today.
Redbox Talks
Verizon has been meeting with movie-rental kiosk operater Redbox, a unit of Coinstar Inc. (CSTR), in an effort to work out a content-distribution plan, a person familiar with the talks said on Dec. 8. The carrier has also met with other potential video partners and final details for any arrangement haven’t been determined, the person said then.
“Verizon’s not interested in Netflix, they see Redbox as a much better fit,” said Sam Greenholtz, an analyst with Telecom Pragmatics in Westminster, Maryland, who has consulted for Verizon and was briefed by its employees about its plan.
Verizon Chief Executive Officer Lowell McAdam told an investor conference on Dec. 7 that the company aims to move beyond its FiOS TV service into the streaming-video business.
“We continue to look at alternatives,” McAdam said at a UBS investor conference in New York.
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