Verizon plans big Windows Phone push for the holidays

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Verizon Wireless chief financial officer Fran Shammo said the company is looking to market a third mobile platform to help develop a strong competitor to Apple and Google. That operating system will be Microsoft’s upcoming Windows Phone 8. “We’re really looking at the Windows Phone 8.0 platform because that’s a differentiator. We’re working with Microsoft on it,” Shammo said in an interview with <em>Reuters </em>following the company’s <a href="http://www.bgr.com/2012/04/19/verizon-reports-q1-earnings-up-16-734000-net-subscriber-additions/">earnings call</a> on Thursday. The carrier expects to have Windows Phone 8-powered handsets in time for the 2012 holiday shopping season. The executive suggested that Verizon could play a similar role in helping Microsoft’s platform to grow as it did with Google’s Android OS. <span id="more-136415"></span>

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