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Verizon will drop phone contracts, end discounted phones
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.
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Mom: Verizon Fired Me For Taking Leave After My Babies Died
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.
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Verizon increases the price of unlimited data plans by $20 a month
Verizon is making it more expensive to keep that old unlimited data plan.
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Add Pittsburgh To The List Of Cities That Say Verizon Ripped Them Off
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...
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Towns want Verizon investigated for abandoning networks through neglect
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).
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Verizon gave this guy Sir Mix-A-Lot’s old phone number — and now he gets his raunchy texts
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...
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AOL is considering branding changes, which may include changing its name
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?"
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Verizon just blatantly betrayed net neutrality by excluding its video app from data caps
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...
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Verizon’s Free Video Deal: Will It Cost Us in the Long Run?
(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
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AT&T Joins Verizon In 5G Testing: What Is 5G And Do You Need It?
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.
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Verizon leads a long list of cloud conundrums
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.
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Despite A Decade Of Trying To Kill It, Verizon Insists It Loves Net Neutrality
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...
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Verizon won’t fix copper lines when customers refuse switch to fiber
Verizon has reportedly switched 1.1 million customers from copper to fiber lines over the past few years under a program it calls "Fiber Is the Only Fix." But some phone customers have refused the switch to fiber because they prefer to keep their copper lines—even though Verizon apparently is refusing to fix problems in the copper infrastructure. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that it obtained internal company documents that describe...
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Bernie Sanders walks picket line with Verizon protesters – video
The Democratic presidential candidate on Wednesday told the roaring crowd: ‘You have chosen to stand up for dignity’
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Verizon and unions reach tentative deal to end strike
Verizon Communications Inc (VZ.N) and unions representing nearly 40,000 wireline workers have reached a tentative deal "in principle" to end a strike that started April 13th, U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez said on Friday.
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The Moto Z Doesn't Have A 3.5mm Headphone Jack, Includes A Type-C To Headphone Adapter Instead
Lenovo and Motorola unveiled the 2016 Moto flagships today at Tech World with a line of modular back plates and a few months of Verizon exclusivity (boo).... by Ryan Whitwam in Accessories, Moto Z, Moto Z Force, Motorola, News
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Verizon bets on features over prices with new data billing plans
Verizon's betting that you're willing to pay more for its reliable 4G network than going cheaper with another phone company.
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Sprint's Marcelo Claure Tweets Verizon Price Hike Comic
For 2016, Verizon Wireless are pursuing the quality customers. They are largely abandoning the prepay market and instead concentrating on those customers...
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Verizon will cut off unlimited data users who use too much unlimited data
Verizon is forcing heavy data users to get off its unlimited plan or get off the carrier's network entirely. Verizon's continuing its ongoing mission to pare down the number of customers on unlimited data plans by migrating them to ones with hard limits. Recently, the company came up with a way to get rid of its biggest data hogs. Verizon is notifying customers using an “extraordinary” amount of data per month that they must move off their unlimited data plan by August 31. If they don’t switch, the carrier will disconnect their accounts, though they’ll have 50 days to reactivate them on a limited plan, as first reported by Droid Life.
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Verizon close to deal to buy Yahoo, reports suggest
Yahoo Inc is focused on selling its core business to U.S. telecommunications company Verizon Communications Inc after reviewing final bids that it received this week, people familiar with the matter said on Friday. A deal would boost Verizon's AOL internet business, which it acquired last year for $4.4 billion US, by giving it access to Yahoo's advertising technology tools, as well other assets such as search, mail, messenger and real estate.
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