You'd be hard pressed to find a company that's been more involved in trying to kill net neutrality than Verizon. The company successfully sued to overturn the FCC's original, flimsy 2010 neutrality rules, which most ISPs actually liked because they contained enough loopholes to drive several vehicle convoys through. Responding to Verizon's legal assault, the FCC responded last year by taking things further, passing new, (supposedly) more legally sound neutrality rules and...

Verizon paid a premium for Terremark. When announced, Verizon offered $19 and Terremark was trading just above $14. Where Verizon could have made an enormous infrastructure steal, it’s now mostly toast. But they’re not the only visible mistake.

Wireless companies and telecom equipment vendors have already begun work on 5G, despite lacking universal consensus on what it is exactly. The one thing that's certain about 5G is that it will change the world, and it will do so in short order.

(Image: Rob Pegoraro/Yahoo Tech) Verizon Wireless is streaming all over the idea of net neutrality. Of course, that’s not how the nation’s largest wireless carrier — which just began exempting video streamed via its own go90 video app from the data quotas of its service plans— would describe it. Instead

The FCC's net neutrality rules, passed last year, explicitly ban internet providers from a number of discriminatory measures like throttling and blocking, but there's evidently a huge loophole that every major wireless carrier in the US has rushed to exploit. T-Mobile's Binge On program, which throttles video content, is troublesome — but AT&T and Verizon's programs are much worse, especially the one Verizon just announced today in the fine print...

AOL's chief marketing officer has acknowledged that the company is considering changes to its identity, saying: "Are we going to keep the AOL brand or are we going to bring a new brand to market?"

When the offers of backstage passes and bikini pics started blowing up his phone, Jonathan Nichols knew something was up, writes columnist Nicole Brodeur. The first text came not long after Jonathan Nichols got his new phone. “Check this guy out,” it said, with a link to a YouTube video of a guy making beats out of a synthesizer. It was good, Nichols thought, but couldn’t have been meant for him. He was a law student at Seattle University who had just switched...

Sixteen cities and towns in New Jersey have asked the state to investigate Verizon, claiming that the telecommunications company “has, through neglect, abandoned and retired its copper landline infrastructure in most of South Jersey. ”In areas where Verizon hasn’t upgraded its network to fiber, it has failed to properly maintain the copper wires used to provide telephone service and DSL Internet, the towns said in a petition to the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (BPU).

You can add Pittsburgh to the growing list of towns, cities and states that claim Verizon is ripping them off. Verizon, of course, froze its FiOS fiber expansion years ago, instead focusing its attention on more profitable (read: capped) wireless service. The company did continue to expand FiOS in a number of east coast cities (Washington, Philadelphia, New York), agreeing to full city fiber expansion in exchange for sweetheart franchise deals...

Verizon is making it more expensive to keep that old unlimited data plan.

A mother who had twins via a surrogate says Verizon denied her paid maternity leave—and then fired her after the premature babies died. A New Jersey woman who used a surrogate to have twins is suing Verizon for allegedly denying her paid maternity leave—and she claims the company later fired her when she took time off to care for the babies, who were born prematurely and who both died shortly after birth.

Verizon, the nation’s largest wireless provider, will stop offering phones at discounted prices when customers sign two-year service contracts. The move was made in the name of simplification, but it could result in some customers paying more.

Verizon is getting rid of contract plans, switching its offerings over to month-to-month plans like AT&T and T-Mobile did before it. Verizon's new plans are all based around shared data buckets — there's no single line or family plan. Instead, subscribers pay for a specific amount of data and then pay a per-device fee to hook it into the plan.

It’s become instinct to answer “I need a new phone” with “Well, when is your contract up?” for most people. However, that’s coming to an end at Verizon. The company will no longer offer their typical two-year contracts, or the subsidized phones that come along with it.

Vice content, including original programming, will be available on Verizon's upcoming mobile service.

News: Verizon is preparing for a labor strike as its negotiations with the Communications Workers of America appear to be stalling. Verizon's currently

Having dropped its Home Monitoring & Control service last year, Verizon moves former users to Nexia Home Intelligence DIY home automation platform; seeds IoT market with Greenwave-powered Quantum Z-Wave and ZigBee router.

Ask New Yorkers about Verizon FiOS, and you'll get one of two answers. If they are one of the lucky people who have access, they'll swoon about its fantastic speeds. If not, you'll hear tales of frustration about fruitlessly waiting years for FiOS to make it to their doorsteps. It wasn't supposed to be this way. When the City of New York signed a franchise agreement with Verizon to build out its fiber-optic network across the five boroughs, everyone...

In 2006, the NY Public Service Commission granted Verizon NY multiple rate increases (84%) on residential phone service for

No, Sprint and Verizon aren't going to escape the FCC's bid to punish carriers for letting shady text message services bill their customers.