Verizon and AT&T Have Netflix Deals in the Works, Too

UPDATE: Feb. 24, 2014 at 4:15 p.m. ET: AT&T has confirmed to Mashable that is also in negotiations with Netflix to connect networks in an effort to improve performance.

A day after Comcast signed a network connection deal with Netflix to boost data speeds, Verizon's chief executive told CNBC that his company has been in talks with the streaming video pioneer for the past year.

The statements from Verizon CEO Lowell McAdams highlights how the Comcast/Netflix deal may become the first of many arrangements in which money is paid to gain physical access to networks and therefore greater speeds.