Quick Take: Verizon Sides With Consumers
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In other news, winged pigs are having snowball fights in Miami.
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Lack of bidders forces largest US local telephone companies to terminate efforts in small markets. NEW YORK  - Verizon Communications Inc.
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Throws Jello at Congress Much to Google's chagrin, Verizon has asked a federal court to shoot down new rules that would allow consumers to attach any device and any application to a prime portion of the U.S. wireless spectrum.â¦
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Customers want the service, changes are in the works, and counting Vonage out could be a mistake.
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Nextel agreed not to oppose Verizon Wireless&#39; use of the term &quot;push-to-talk&quot; when marketing a competing walkie-talkie service.
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Net phone company says it didn't copy Verizon's patents, but the telecommunications giant says harm has been done and its VoIP rival must pay.
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In our zero-sum service economy, complaining can be necessary -- which is why the cell phone company shouldn't have dropped its customers
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Wireless phone service can't be purchased on price alone -- first, you need to decide which carrier to go with, since not all offer the same service. -Rob Pegoraro
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Verizon Wireless has agreed to drop its opposition to the FCC&#39;s decision to realign the 800 MHz spectrum band, including Nextel&#39;s receipt of 1.9 GHz spectrum, and Nextel has agreed to relinquish
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(InfoWorld) - Verizon Wireless has encountered strong opposition for its request that an appeals court overturn U.S. Federal Communications Commission auction rules on a portion of wireless spectrum. Verizon Wireless, in a brief filed Monday, asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to review the FCC's decision to require so-calledÂ open-access rulesÂ on about a third of the 62MHz of spectrum in theÂ 700MHz band scheduled to be auctioned in January. The FCC voted in July to require that the winner of 22MHz of spectrum allow any wireless devices to connect to the network, meaning wireless telephone customers could bring their handset devices from other carriers. The FCC also prohibited the winning bidder on the 22MHz block of spectrum from blocking or slowing wireless and Web content from competitors. Those rules are "arbitrary, capricious, unsupported by substantial evidence and otherwise contrary to law," Verizon Wireless said in its brief. Verizon spokeswoman Debra Lewis said the company will let the brief "speak for itself." Media reform group Free Press, a supporter of the open-access rules, accused Verizon Wireless of sending "lawyers, FUD and money" in an attempt to overturn the FCC's decision. The FCC's open-access rules were a "small step on the long road to breaking up the anticompetitive, anticonsumer oligopoly that controls almost every level of the wireless marketplace," Free Press said in a statement. Frontline Wireless, another supporter of the open-access rules, said in a statement that Verizon's lawsuit "throws a wrench into the auction to promote competition and innovation for consumers." Google also criticized Verizon's lawsuit. The open-access rules are "a big step for consumer choice and competition," Chris Sacca, Google's head of special initiatives, wrote on Google's public policy blog. "Apparently, one of the nation's major existing wireless carriers doesn't think consumers deserve more choices." The wireless spectrum is a valuable public resource, Sacca added. "The nation's spectrum airwaves are not the birthright of any one company," he wrote. The 700MHz spectrum is being abandoned by U.S. television stations after Congress has required them to move from analog to all-digital broadcasts by February 2009. Many tech, broadband and wireless vendors are eyeing the spectrum for next-generation wireless and broadband services; wireless signals can travel about four times farther in the 700MHz band as signals in higher bands. Many groups calling forÂ net-neutrality laws for broadband providersÂ have suggested that the 700MHz band is the best chance in the coming years for a third broadband service that competes with cable and telecom providers. The open-access rules, similar to net-neutrality rules, could help foster a third competitor, but many open-access supporters wanted the FCC to also require the winning bidding to provide wholesale access to competitors at wholesale prices. Verizon Wireless and other critics have suggested the open-access rules will limit the options for the spectrum. The rules could drive down the price the U.S. government gets for the spectrum, and they could discourage the winning bidder from rolling out innovative new services on the spectrum, critics have said.
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For many online users, the idea that their Internet provider was particularly aggressive in cracking down on e-mail spam would be welcome news. But some of Verizon's 3 million high-speed Internet customers say the company is bungling the job and hurting their livelihoods.
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A Verizon Wireless executive scoffed at the notion that iPhone will take customers away from his company.
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Investor's Business Daily - Verizon Wireless is bringing next-generation 3G wireless data services to the nation's consumers -- behind Asia and parts of Europe, but ahead of all its U.S. carrier rivals.
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England-based Vodafone Group Plc yesterday denied a report that it was backing partner company Verizon in a bid to block the possible merger between Sprint and Nextel, which analysts expected to be announced today.
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Verizon Wireless saw some subscribers  defect to AT&T Inc  to get the iPhone but the impact was  short-lived, said one of Verizon's parents, Vodafone Group Plc  , on Wednesday.
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Verizon Wireless saw some subscribers  defect to AT&T Inc  to get the iPhone but the impact was  short-lived, said one of Verizon&#39;s parents, Vodafone Group Plc  , on Wednesday.
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Who's blocking all the great e-mail from Europe? Verizon is, and its customers aren't very happy about it. The company says it's only trying to block spam, but the filters aren't working very well. By John Gartner.