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  • Verizon CEO Paints Gloomy Picture on Jobs
    The economy’s hit bottom, right? We’re starting to see small improvements, right? Not so fast.Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg told an investor conference this week that unemployment numbers aren’t necessarily keeping up with the generally somewhat-optimistic ...More
    January 9, 2010
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  • Unions Fight Against Verizon Landline Sale to Frontier
    The gloves will come off at a rally Sunday in Charleston, W. Va., where politicians and union members plan to protest the sale of thousands of Verizon landlines to Frontier Communications.The proposed $8.6 billion deal that covers 14 states has drawn fire since it was ...More
    January 8, 2010
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  • Retirees Sue Verizon for Alleged Lost Benefits
    Three ex-Verizon employees are going after the phone giant in court for rolling their retirement benefits under the control of another company.The plaintiffs say their benefits were transferred to Idearc Inc., a Yellow Pages publisher, when it spun off from Verizon more ...More
    January 4, 2010
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  • Beyond ETF: Verizon Denies ‘Phantom’ Internet Access Fee
    While Verizon’s early-termination fee has been making headlines in recent days, several hundred customers have come forward to say they were charged a “phantom” $1.99 fee for accessing the Internet, even though they claim they never did.After reports by ...More
    December 23, 2009
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  • Verizon Wireless CTO Says Bring on the iPhone
    As 2009 drifts away and 2010 is born, speculation will grow as to whether Verizon Wireless gets its shot at selling the Apple iPhone.AT&T’s struggles in handling all of the data downloads on its network have been well documented. That’s why Verizon says ...More
    December 18, 2009
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  • Spotting, Avoiding Costly Cell Phone Plan Fees
    With both Verizon Wireless’ and T-Mobile’s early termination fees in the headlines this year, advocacy group Consumer Action has outlined four tips to help spot and avoid ETFs in the event you want to dump your wireless carrier for a prepaid plan:Determine if ...More
    December 17, 2009
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  • Teen Downloads 1.4 Million Kilobytes of Data
    We knew teens love their texting and downloading, but not this much. One California teen, whose father had recently added him to the family cell phone plan, managed to jack up the bill to $21,917. The father, Ted Estarija, has wondered publicly why Verizon Communications ...More
    December 17, 2009
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  • Verizon, AT&T Extend Free Wi-Fi
    The free Wi-Fi craze continues this week with Verizon Wireless extending the service to some users – but not smartphone users, it must be noted. Meanwhile, AT&T Inc. will offer free Wi-Fi to all visitors at 11,000 of the more than 13,000 U.S. McDonalds’ ...More
    December 16, 2009
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  • ATN Launches New Company to Run Verizon Wireless Assets
    Atlantic Tele-Network Inc. (ATN) is making headway in launching a new subsidiary to run the wireless properties, licenses and network assets it agreed to acquire from Verizon Wireless back in June.The new company, dubbed Allied Wireless Communications Corporation (AWCC), ...More
    December 16, 2009
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  • Verizon Lights Up 100G on Nortel Gear
    Verizon Communication Inc. has beat others to the punch in the ultra big-pipe game by lighting up a 100 gigabit-per-second link in its core for live traffic.The system was deployed on the company’s European optical core network between Paris and Frankfurt. This is the ...More
    December 14, 2009
    Posted in News