Plans call for completing a national rollout during the next few months.
Mobile Web will work with any of five handsets. Verizon, based in New York, was formed in April from the merger of Bell Atlantic Mobile, GTE Wireless, PCS Primeco and AirTouch. The pact, whose terms were not disclosed, is the latest in a series of wireless-related deals for AOL, the world's leading Internet services company. Analysts take Microsoft claim with grain of salt Analysts cautioned against attaching too much importance to the claim by Microsoft Corp . yesterday that its Internet services, MSN, has become the No. 1 worldwide Internet destination for consumers. The company said in a statement that 201 million unique users visited MSN, or Microsoft Services Network during June 2000, according to its own internal data that does not double-count users.