Verizon Wireless collaborates with Plaxo to offer automatic phone contact updates

Verizon Wireless is the second largest mobile service provider in the United States and they are now teaming up with Plaxo Inc to offer a new service which would enable customers to get automatic phone contact updates.

Users would get the updated information without entering the data themselves. It would gather data from commonly used e-mail systems including the MSN Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail and send the data wirelessly to the customer’s cellphone.

Customers would then be able to choose which names in e-mail address books they want to copy onto their phones. This service is being offered for a fee of $4.49 a month. Verizon Wireless added that this service would work on as many as 30 Verizon Wireless handsets.

Plaxo added that they would soon support customers on Alltel Corp and U.S. Cellular Corp.