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Verizon isn’t exactly shy about tooting its own horn relative to their decision to go FTTH with their highly publicized FiOS platform. Many analysts agree that it was the right decision, especially in the face of growing DOCSIS 3.0 competition. Some financial analysts ...

In what began in some limited markets of Florida and Pennsylvania is now available in most Verizon FiOS markets – no term contracts (or month-to-month service) for new customers. The Verizon Worry Free Guarantee is effective immediately and offers ‘price protection’ for FiOS bundles as ...

A strong impetus to use electric power more efficiently and the advent of smart grid technology is prompting a fundamental retooling of the nation's utilities, and bringing together members of the telecom and utility industries. Yesterday, Verizon and the Utilities Telecom Council ...

AT&T and Verizon engineered a swap of wireless assets (and some cash) in order for Verizon to gain approval for its acquisition of the former rural wireless carrier Alltel. The swap involved AT&T buying approximately 1.5 million new subscribers across an 18 state footprint. As a ...

Even though West Virginia ultimately approved the Frontier-Verizon deal, it was probably the highest hurdle for Frontier and Verizon to clear to get the deal done. There was ample opposition to the deal, especially from the Communications Workers of America (CWA), ...

Company's Latest Widget Makes It Quick and Easy to Find a Business in the Neighborhood or Across the Country NEW YORK – June 3, 2010 –Verizon's FiOS TV Visual 411 directory assistance widget has people wanting more - more information, that is.  Visual 411, first introduced to FiOS TV customers in the Dallas area in November, is now available to FiOS ...

Verizon quietly launched an IP voice product, FiOS Digital Voice, way back in December 2008. They’ve obviously been working to perfect it because today they’ve announced a dramatic expansion of its availability....

It’s going to be an interesting next few months as details about the brewing Verizon Wireless – rural carrier partnership to deploy 4G in rural territories begin to emerge. Verizon first discussed the potential of such a partnership ...

Some industry observers were under-whelmed a couple of years ago when the first devices Verizon Wireless approved under the carrier’s open network initiative were designed for machine-to-machine communications. But today the industry is waking up to opportunities in m2m, particularly those that ...

Given their rapid proliferation, smartphones and 'connected computing devices' (i.e the Apple iPad) will account for more than 87% of overall mobile network data traffic for US operators by 2014, according to research released yesterday ...