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Verizon's High-Speed Home Internet Is About To Get Even Faster

2012-05-30T14:07:00Z

(Reuters) - Verizon Communications Inc <VZ.N> plans to double its fastest home Internet download speed to 300 megabits per second (mbps) next mo...

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Bruce Kushnick: Broadband Wars: The Battle for New Jersey Has Begun

2012-05-24T10:35:06Z

The battle for America's entire communications future is playing out this week in two small towns in New Jersey.

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Bob Varettoni: It's Not the Same Old Song at Verizon

2012-05-23T11:46:10Z

Verizon today is vibrant and profitable. We changed with the times. We shed businesses, such as printed phone directories, to focus on meeting and anticipating the changes in customer demand.

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Bruce Kushnick: The Great Verizon FiOS Ripoff

2012-05-19T10:12:00Z

Verizon is now making it clear that it is no longer expanding FiOS, its fiber optic cable service. So what did they accomplish? What did they build? And how much did it cost?

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Verizon: Here's How You Can Keep Your Unlimited Data Plan

2012-05-18T09:15:00Z

By Sinead Carew NEW YORK (Reuters) - Verizon Wireless plans to make its data-hungry customers pay a lot more, either in service fees or...

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Verizon Exec Says Company Will Kill Off Unlimited Plans

2012-05-16T15:05:29Z

A Verizon exec has announced that the company plans to do away with its unlimited data plans for grandfathered customers in favor of new tiered "data ...

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And America's Most Satisfying Phone Company Is...

2012-05-15T08:32:47Z

NEW YORK -- Improvements in customer satisfaction at Sprint Nextel Corp. and AT&T Inc. have narrowed differences among the Big 4 wireless carriers to ...

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Art Brodsky: Going Dutch a Great Idea for the Internet

2012-05-11T17:09:17Z

Earlier this week, the Dutch government gave final approval to one of the strongest open Internet laws in the world. Imagine that. A government guaranteeing through law that Internet connections can't be manipulated by big telecom companies.

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Verizon Announces New 'Incredible' Phone

2012-05-07T16:43:33Z

It's been awhile since we've had Incredible news, but here we go: Verizon and HTC have announced a new Droid Incredible smartphone, to be released in ...

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Dave Johnson: 99% Spring Disrupts Verizon Shareholder Meeting Six Times

2012-05-03T17:33:51Z

Today's Verizon shareholder meeting in Huntsville, Alabama was disrupted six separate times by members of the 99% Power coalition, part of the 99% Spring movement.

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Bruce Kushnick: How Wireless Hype Is Hurting America

2012-05-02T10:25:42Z

If Americans believe the phone company hype -- and are seduced into believing that a slow and expensive wireless infrastructure is better than a fast wireline infrastructure -- the economic consequences could be grave.

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Phone Companies Ignore Low-Price Requirement That You Are Paying For

2012-05-01T10:52:34Z

By Jeff Gerth ProPublica, May 1, 2012, 10 a.m.At the dawn of the Internet era, Congress set out to avert a digital divide between rich and poor ...

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Shocked By Your Wireless Bill? Here's Some Good News

2012-04-20T15:30:27Z

Have you ever been shocked by a sudden increase in your cell phone bill? One in six of us have, according to the Federal Communications Commission.
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Verizon: Thanks, iPhone!

2012-04-19T08:48:15Z

NEW YORK — Holiday sales of the iPhone 4S started to boost revenue at Verizon Communications Inc. in the latest quarter, as subscribers settled ...

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Verizon Announces Auction That Could Fetch Billions

2012-04-18T12:15:39Z

NEW YORK — Verizon Wireless on Wednesday said it will auction a parcel of radio frequencies, which could be worth billions of dollars in an indu...

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Bruce Kushnick: Please, Sir, May I Have Another?

2012-04-18T12:02:59Z

For the last 20 years, the nation's major telecom companies have been playing the public and regulatory officials for fools. Now they're claiming they shouldn't be obliged to provide affordable landline service to everyone anymore, as they take the money and run to wireless.

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Verizon Will Now Charge You A Fee To Upgrade

2012-04-11T12:20:23Z

-- Verizon Wireless, the country's largest cellphone company, says it will start charging $30 every time a subscriber wants to upgrade to a new phone...

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The Corporations That Make Money Off Taxes

2012-04-09T18:08:04Z

Instead of giving money to the government, it turns out more than a few U.S. companies are actually making money off their income taxes.

In a recen...

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More Ice Cream Sandwich Updates Roll Out (And More Delayed, Too)

2012-04-07T10:55:36Z

Here's some more news on the never-ending Ice Cream Sandwich update front for those still waiting.

First, Sprint has confirmed that the Nexus S -- ...

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These Are The Prices AT&T, Verizon And Sprint Charge For Cellphone Wiretaps

2012-04-04T12:36:36Z

If Americans aren’t disturbed by phone carriers’ practices of handing over cell phone users’ personal data to law enforcement en masse–in many...

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Josh Levy: Hey America! We're Ranked #16 in Broadband!

2012-04-03T17:26:29Z

Competition in the U.S. broadband market is virtually nonexistent. That means that millions of Americans live without high-speed Internet access, and those who do have it experience slower speeds and higher prices than their European counterparts.

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Verizon CEO Hints At New Video Service

2012-03-30T09:18:00Z

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Verizon Communications Inc is aiming to offer an integrated video service for its wireless customers, its FiOS customers and its ...

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Ruben Diaz Jr.: We Cannot Afford to Deregulate 'VoIP'

2012-03-23T12:46:37Z

Cable companies and Verizon are now trying to deregulate digital phone service, also known as VoIP, in Albany. If this proposal were to become law, all consumers would lose out.

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Verizon Defends $3.6 Billion Deal

2012-03-21T18:34:00Z

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Verizon Communications and Comcast executives, in testimony on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, defended joint spectrum and marketing...

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Pay Phones To Be Replaced By Internet Kiosks

2012-03-19T09:36:27Z

Looks like Clark Kent's getting a new dressing room. Those hulking wastes of space we used to call pay phones will soon be no more.

New Yorkers wil...

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