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San Francisco, June 19
Yahoo Mobile, a mobile phone service that uses the Verizon network, is shutting down, the service announced on its official website.
For customers who continue to use the service, which launched in March last year, the Yahoo Mobile website tells them to switch to Visible, another service operated by Verizon, XDA Developers reported.
In 2016, Verizon acquired the Yahoo brand for $ 4.83 billion. In March of 2020, Verizon launched Yahoo Mobile with only one plan on offer: unlimited conversations, SMS and 4G LTE data for $ 40 per month.
As pointed out by The Verge, Yahoo Mobile was a rebranded version of Visible, another of Verizon’s spinoff phone services.
During its operation, the service only saw the launch of a couple of devices, including ZTE’s affordable Blade A3 Prime and Blade A3Y.
Last month, Verizon sold all Verizon Media brands, including Yahoo, to an investment management company called Apollo Global Management.
On a support page, Yahoo Mobile cites this sale as the reason for its closure, but the service still wouldn’t have lasted much longer given its poor branding, marketing and value, according to the report.
Current Yahoo Mobile members will continue to use the service for this billing cycle and will be able to renew the service for another month, but the service will be completely discontinued by August 31st.
Members can request that their numbers be transferred to another carrier by logging into YahooMobile.com or the Yahoo Mobile app, and members are free to take their existing devices to another carrier. – IANS
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