Verizon reverses decision to block text messages
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Verizon WirelessÂ has reversed a decision to block text messages on its network from abortion rights group Naral Pro-Choice America after an outcry fromÂ net neutrality advocatesÂ and others.
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WASHINGTON -- The Federal Communications Commission Tuesday yanked jurisdiction on Internet telephony away from states, a decision that could set a major precedent for the industry.
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After having mounted what appeared to have been a serious legal challenge to the US Federal Communications Commission's right to impose rules for bidders in the upcoming 700 MHz spectrum auction without legislative authority, Verizon yesterday formally withdrew its FCC complaint from the D.C. District Court of Appeals.
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The Supreme Court put new limits on antitrust lawsuits, throwing out a case that accused Verizon Communications and other local-telephone companies of agreeing not to compete in each other's home territories.
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The recent stir created by Verizon Wireless when it turned down a text-message campaign from an abortion rights group, and then quickly reversed itself, is a reminder that wireless carriers, just like their wired counterparts, should not decide what kind of traffic rides over their rails.
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Declares 'great respect for this free flow of ideas' Verizon Wireless has reversed a decision to "reject a request from Naral Pro-Choice America, the abortion rights group, to make Verizonâs mobile network available for a text-message program"..â¦
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The Federal Communications Commission ruled 3-2 that states are now barred from imposing telecommunications regulations on Internet phone providers, which treat calls no differently than any other application on the Net.
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Verizon Wireless has rejected a request from Naral Pro-Choice America to make Verizonâs mobile network available for a text-message program.
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Calls to 13 other countries will be blocked to thwart auto-dialer software.
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A federal judge has halted the ban on mobile phones containing chips made by Qualcomm that was imposed after a court earlier determined that the chips violated a patent held by Broadcom.
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Vonage downplays an appeals court decision affirming an earlier verdict of patent infringement on two patents owned by Verizon.
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Verizon Communications won an appeals court ruling yesterday upholding most of a patent verdict over smaller rival Vonage Holdings, the second legal setback for the Internet phone company in as many days.
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After months of vitriol, Verizon Wireless said it will drop its objections to Nextel&#39;s (Quote, Chart) controversial spectrum swap agreement with the federal government.
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The Supreme Court turned away a challenge Monday to the federal do-not-call registry, ending telemarketers' bid to invoke free-speech arguments to get the popular ban on unwanted phone solicitations thrown out. -AP
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In an Aug. 29 story about a permanent injunction against a Rhode Island man who sent unsolicited text messages to Verizon Wireless cell phone customers, The Associated Press erroneously reported the date of the federal court action. The injunction was granted Aug. 23, not Aug. 27.
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The ruling lets employers prohibit workers from using corporate e-mail to distribute union-related messages.
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Verizon Wireless reversed an earlier refusal to allow an abortion rights advocacy group to set up a text message alert system with subscribers.