Verizon’s weather-forecast telephone service continues to include an announcement saying that, effect June 1, 2011, Verizon will no longer offer weather-forecast services. The weather-forecast service continues to offer a weather forecast.
That’s a strange operating procedure for an information service. Maybe it’s an ironic representation of the challenges of weather forecasting. Maybe it’s a profound depiction of telephone companies’ urgent quest for a new business model.
