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Massachusetts: Verizon FiOS Arrives for Some, But Not Others
FiOS Have’s and Have-Nots Despite complaints earlier this month from Boston Mayor Thomas Menino that Verizon’s latest ad for FiOS was filmed in Boston — a city that lacks the fiber optic service, not...
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AT&T, Verizon Among the Biggest ‘Pay to Play’ Campaign Contributors and...
AT&T and Verizon are among the biggest tech company spenders in Washington, paying millions every quarter to lobby federal and state lawmakers on how they can make life easier for the telecom...
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BBC: The Great American Broadband Ripoff; Customers Pay 3x More than Europe,...
Broadband in the United States costs far more than in other countries — nearly three times as much as in the UK and France, and at least five times more than South Korea, according to BBC News. The New...
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N.Y. Regulator Rules Details About Verizon’s Landline Network Are Not...
Verizon gets out the black marker to redact information it considers “confidential.” The New York Public Service Commission Monday rejected most of Verizon’s request to keep secret the state of its...
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Net Neutrality: Big Deal, Big Money
Other coverage you may enjoy: Verizon Retweets Stop the Cap! (and Other Tears in the Fabric of Space) FAIL: Time Warner Runs Tacky Ad in Staten Island Asking If Telcos Left Them ‘High and Dry’ Updated...
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Intel Bails On Competing Virtual Cable TV Service; Cable Buyer Would Keep...
Behind the 8 ball. Intel’s plan to launch a competing virtual cable television operation delivering programming over existing broadband connections is dead and the cable industry has tentative plans to...
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Verizon Declares Cord Cutting ‘Real’; Under 30 Crowd Doesn’t Care About...
Cord-cutting is a real, measurable phenomena and is especially common among those under 30 who don’t care about traditional cable television service. Those are the views of Verizon’s chief financial...
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Verizon Consultant: Voice Link and Home Phone Connect Are Essentially Identical
Verizon’s Home Phone Connect base station Despite assertions that Verizon created Voice Link as a solution for customers suffering from chronic landline problems, in reality the wireless landline...
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NY Slams Verizon for Excessive Document Redaction; Secret Voice Link...
Verizon “redacted” hundreds of pages of information about its controversial Voice Link project, including its User’s Guide. Verizon today lost its appeal to keep company documents about its...
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Deck the Halls With a Verizon FiOS Rate Hike; Tis the Season for $8+ More a...
Verizon is notifying some of its FiOS TV customers they will be paying $8 more a month “within 1-3 billing cycles” and a dollar more a month for the Regional Sports Network Fee, applicable in some...
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How to Get a Better Deal for Verizon FiOS; $79.99 Triple-Play Offer With $300...
Cablevision CEO Jim Dolan may have to eat his words when he told shareholders he was done giving promotional discounts to customers bouncing back and forth between competing providers. Now Verizon has...
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AT&T Sells Landlines in Conn. to Frontier; U-verse TV Available to Frontier...
AT&T today announced it was selling off its residential wireline network in Connecticut to Stamford-based Frontier Communications for $2 billion in a deal that includes an expanded license for...
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Many Retirees Losing Verizon Wireless Discounts In Ongoing Revalidation Campaign
Retirees enjoying employer-based discounts on wireless service are learning they are often ineligible to continue getting a break on their Verizon Wireless bill after the phone company began auditing...
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Marked Down: Intel’s $1 Billion Online Cable System Technology Sold to...
Behind the 8 ball. Intel has sold its never-launched Intel Media OnCue system, which planned to compete for cable TV viewers using online video, for a deeply discounted $200 million to Verizon...
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Cable TV Cord Cutting: Myth or Reality?
For years, cable operators have denied they have a problem. But new evidence suggests Americans are cutting back on their cable television habit as prices continue to rise and alternatives become...
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Is Verizon Purposely Slowing Down Netflix for FiOS Customers? Stop the Cap!...
David Raphael ran into trouble using his Verizon Internet connection last month, discovering major slowdowns when accessing Amazon’s cloud-server ‘AWS,’ which in addition to serving his employer also...
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Verizon Introduces 2-Yr Price Guarantee, Free Upgrade to Quantum 50/25Mbps...
Verizon has introduced a two-year price guarantee offer and a free broadband speed upgrade for new customers signing up for FiOS Internet, TV and voice service before April 19. It’s the latest...
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Verizon: Prioritization and Compensation for Certain Traffic is the Future of...
McAdam The head of Verizon believes two concepts will become Internet reality in the short-term future: Those that use a lot of Internet bandwidth should pay more to transport that content; The...
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Your Online Privacy — Invaded; AT&T and Verizon Among List of Offenders
Click here to view the embedded video. This weekend, 60 Minutes profiled how marketing companies invade your privacy, track your personal life and locations, and sell the lucrative information with...
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New Jersey’s Fiber Ripoff: Verizon Walks Away from Fiber Upgrades Customers...
Bait and switch broadband Since 1991, Verizon telephone customers in New Jersey have paid at least $15 billion in surcharges for a promised high-speed broadband network that would reach every home in...
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