Verizon settles probe into data plans
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Verizon Wireless has agreed to pay a penalty and reimburse users who were disconnected for "excessive" use of a cellular broadband service that was marketed as allowing "unlimited" use, New York's state attorney general announced Tuesday.
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The agreement settles a California civil suit over Hewlett-PackardÂs pursuit of private phone records to trace a news leak.
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Verizon Wireless, the largest US wireless company, said on Wednesday it was expanding its high-speed data service to all or part of 17 cities, under a $1 billion upgrade aimed at increasing customer spending on its services.
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Cingular, Priceline and Travelocity settled with New York state's attorney general over adware charges.
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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC)&#160;has settled a complaint with a Web-based company it accused of selling people&#39;s telephone records without permission, the agency said Monday.The settlement with CEO Group, doing business as Check Em Out, bars the company and its operator Scott Joseph from marketing or selling phone records, and it requires the company to give up $25,000 of its profits from selling phone records. Selling phone records to third parties is illegal under federal law, the FTC had charged.The FTC in May 2006 filed complaints in U.S. court against five Web-based companies that obtained and sold confidential phone records to third parties. In addition to the settlement with CEO Group, the FTC has settled two other cases and obtained a default judgment against a fourth company. The complaint against the fifth company is still active.The FTC&#39;s complaints came after complaints from privacy groups and members of the U.S. Congress about pretexting, when someone obtains a telephone customers&#39; records without permission under false pretexts. In many cases, companies offering phone records over the Internet were calling telephone carriers and pretending to be the targeted customer. In September 2006,&#160;Hewlett-Packard revealed it had been spying on some of its board members and journalists in an attempt to uncover the source of boardroom leaks, and HP officials later said their investigators had used pretexting to obtain phone records.The Telecommunications Act of 1996 prohibits customers&#39; phone records from being disclosed unless &quot;upon affirmative written request by the customer.&quot; The FTC charged the five Web-based companies of engaging in unfair business practices.The settlement with CEO Group prohibits it from obtaining, marketing or selling consumer phone records or other consumer personal information except where allowed by law, the FTC said in a news release. The settlement, approved by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, includes a judgment of $222,381, the amount the company earned by selling phone records, but the defendants said they were able to pay only $25,000. If the court finds that the defendants misrepresented their finances, the entire amount will be due, the FTC said.
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Sprint (FON:NYSE - news - research) and Nextel (NXTL:Nasdaq - news - research) confirmed a $35 billion merger Wednesday morning, going public with their definitive agreement despite reports that Verizon (VZ:NYSE - news - research) continues to weigh its
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The cost of Vonage's VoIP technology development policy - build now, ask questions later - hardened a bit more after the close of stock trading this afternoon. Vonage has agreed to settle with the first of its three aggrieved parties, Verizon, in an unusual deal that hinges upon a forthcoming ruling from an appeals court and a separate injunction ruling from a district court.
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group of US states settles data breach complaints with ChoicePoint
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Companies say they have "resolved" dispute over three voice over Internet protocol patents. Precise amount of settlement depends on whether appeals court agrees to review case.
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Verizon Wireless sued 20 unnamed data brokers for fraudulently obtaining private telephone records belonging to Hewlett-Packard Co. board members and journalists as part of an HP investigation into boardroom leaks
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Verizon Communications Inc.   said on Wednesday it had dropped a surcharge for high-speed  Internet service after U.S. regulators questioned whether the  No. 2 U.S. telephone carrier was following truthful billing  practices.
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Verizon Wireless has agreed to pay a fine and reimburse users who were disconnected for "excessive" use of a cellular broadband service that was marketed as allowing "unlimited" use, New York's state attorney general announced Tuesday.
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Federal communications regulators cleared the way for Verizon Communications to sell its phone lines in three New England states for $2.7 billion to FairPoint Communications.
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Qwest Communications International, the US telecommunications group, is understood to have agreed to pay $250 million to end a two-year federal probe of alleged fraudulent accounting practices employed by former management.
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FairPoint Communications reached an agreement with the Vermont Public Service Department that would allow it to buy Verizon phone lines in the state.
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Broadcom Corp and Verizon Wireless  said on Thursday they had reached a licensing deal to allow  Verizon to continue to import and sell mobile phones that are  the subject of a patent dispute with Qualcomm.
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September 13, 2004 - Qwest Communications International and federal regulators have reportedly agreed to a $250 million settlement of a two-year investigation into the alleged financial misdeeds of former Qwest executives.