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NewsWill Verizon drive high-speed prices down?
Consumers looking for "the better deal" may be getting help from Verizon as it tries to slow the loss of DSL subscribers by offering its Internet-phone bundle at a 31 percent discount for new Read more...
Verizon NY safety issue may result in customer credits
On Aug. 21 Verizon Communications committed to conduct safety checks of all FiOS installations in New York state that had occurred before Aug. 1, in order to satisfy concerns about possible incorrect Read more...
Common Cause wants Verizon FiOS installations stopped
Consumer watchdog Common Cause and three other advocacy groups want New York's Public Service Commission to temporarily freeze Verizon's much ballyhooed fiber optic rollout in New York City until Read more...
Verizon to conduct FiOS safety checks in NY
Verizon Communications will conduct safety inspections of all FiOS installations completed in New York before Aug. 1, after the New York Public Service Commission uncovered electrical code violations Read more...
Verizon says FiOS bet already paying off
Verizon says its planned $23 billion FiOS project is already more successful than it anticipated when it announced the project four years ago. The company says FiOS will be run past 19 million homes Read more...
Verizon goes on the offensive in Northern New Jersey
After a summer that saw cable companies gang up on telcos and their service offerings in broadcast ads, Verizon has responded in kind, telling northern New Jersey residents that it is time to Read more...
Cablecos, telcos struggle with falling broadband growth
Telcos and cable companies may have survived the second quarter and only suffered a few scratches, but the long-term prognosis for these patients may not be so good. Broadband sign-ups in the quarter Read more...
Verizon, unions reach tentative agreement
Verizon Communications reached agreement with the Communications Workers of America and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers unions on a tentative new three-year contract Sunday, just Read more...
CWA/IBEW flyer on DC streets: 'Your Verizon Service May be Affected'
Turning up the heat on Verizon, union members handed out CWA/IBEW-prepared fliers warning "Your Verizon Service May be Affected. **Customer Read more...
CWA, IBEW countdown to Verizon strike
Talks aimed at averting a strike by 65,000 CWA and IBEW union workers at Verizon are continuing, but prospects for a deal before the Aug. 2 contract expiration look increasingly slim. Unity@Verizon Read more...
| Press ReleasesVerizon's Rapidly Expanding FiOS TV to Carry Big Ten NetworkNEW YORK and CHICAGO – Verizon, which has become the
nation's ninth-largest video distributor in less than three years, and
Big Ten Network today announced that Verizon will make Big Ten Read more... Qwest Launches Two New, Super High-Speed Fiber-Optic Internet Services
DENVER, April 24, 2008 — Qwest Communications International Inc. (NYSE: Q) today launched a new generation of fiber-optic Internet services that provide unprecedented speed, value and Read more... Verizon Purchases Corning(R) ClearCurve(TM) Cable Solution Following Successful Field TrialsVerizon Tops 1 Million FiOS TV CustomersIn less than 28 months, more than 1 million customers have chosen Verizon FiOS TV, making the company the 10th largest cable provider in the United States. The company announced Monday (Jan. Read more... Verizon Continues to Dramatically Raise Broadband Upload Speeds in FiOS Internet Service Areas November 20, 2007 Media Contact: Bobbi Henson, 214-789-6483 Read more... |