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An administrative law judge in Illinois has written in opposition of the proposed sale of Verizon local exchange assets to Frontier. The Illinois Verizon access lines in question amount to 600k of the total 4.8 million access lines in ...

Verizon Wireless is now the National Football League's official wireless service sponsor, according to news announced today.  The four-year agreement kicks off with live coverage of this year's NFL draft April 22-24. Sprint had this sponsorship in prior years. Initially broadcast across Verizon Wireless's ...

First Real Traffic Demonstration Using Native 100G Router Interfaces and All Standards-Based Transport Optics NEW YORK – March 8, 2010 –Verizon, Juniper Networks, NEC Corporation of America, and Finisar Corp. announced on Monday (March 8) the successful completion of the first real traffic 100 gigabits per second (100G) optical fiber transmission field trial applying standards-based optics end-to-end and using the latest ...

Verizon is building out a 4G wireless network, based on LTE technology, with plans to launch in limited markets by the end of this year. They have been conducting trials in Boston and Seattle and now claim that LTE is maxing ...

Verizon and Frontier have moved closer towards completing the sale and purchase of Verizon's local wireline operations in 14 states.  The approval of the Oregon Public Utility Commission brings to six the number of state PUCs/PSCs who ...

Customers of Verizon’s FiOS TV can now control their television sets using Motorola Droid or HTC Imagio mobile phones. Verizon says the mobile remote has virtually the same functionality ...

Good news for wireless service providers: the number of smartphone customers continued to grow during the past six months. The bad news: call quality performance has declined "considerably" over the same period. According to J.D. Power & Associates' semi-annual "2010 Wireless Call Quality Performance Study, Volume ...

FiOS TV Customers Are First To Have Access to HBOGO.com Featuring Over 600 Hours Of HBO Programming Online – Any Time, Any Place NEW YORK – Verizon and HBO announced today that Verizon's FiOS TV customers will be the first to gain access to HBOGO.com, HBO's online video destination featuring over 600 hours of HBO programming. Starting tomorrow, FiOS customers who ...

New Interactive Widget Offers Fingertip Access to Fast and Accurate Directory Search by Type of Business, Business Name and Much More IRVING, Texas – February 15, 2010 – Verizon's FiOS TV customers in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex and beyond are now a widget away from getting the location and phone number for a pizzeria, florist or other business in their neighborhood ...

Will this day be a footnote in the history of telecom, or just another day? I ask because Verizon and Skype have announced a deal that blesses the use of Skype mobile on ...