Verizon claims nearly 500,000 FiOS TV users
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Verizon Communications Inc.  said on Wednesday it has nearly 500,000 subscribers to FiOS television, a video service that the U.S. phone company delivers over a high-speed, all-fiber network.
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Jaxtr, a Silicon Valley-based  service that enables cell phone users to place free  international calls via the Web, said its membership has  doubled to 500,000 users in the past month.
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Verizon Communications Inc. said on Monday it and five Asian partners will build a $500 million high-speed optical cable linking the United States and China in a bid to benefit from burgeoning Internet activity in China.
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VoIP will reach about 400,000 US households by the end of this year, a number that will grow to 12.1 million, or 10 percent of all homes in the US, by 2009, according to a forecast by New-York-based research firm JupiterResearch.
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Verizon Communications Inc. recently signed up its millionth subscriber to its residential fiber-optic service, FiOS.
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Cellphone subscribers around the globe totalled nearly 1.5 billion by the middle of this year, about 25 percent of the world&#39;s population, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) said yesterday.
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Verizon Communications Inc., the nation&#39;s largest telephone company, announced yesterday it is digging up streets and stringing wire in six states, including Washington&#39;s Maryland and Virginia
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The number of U.S. wireless  subscribers who are switching providers while keeping their  telephone numbers is accelerating, the Federal Communications  Commission said on Friday.
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The Fox channel will be launched this fall and will reach at least 30 million subscribers, the company said.
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Further upping the ante in its effort to steal customers from cable providers, Verizon unveiled out a new high-speed symmetrical plan for its FiOS Internet service. Subscribers will have both 20Mbit/sec download and 20Mbit/sec upload speeds - something that is unheard of in the industry.
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 20  /PRNewswire/ -- Bridges TV is moving to Verizon FiOS TV's Premier Package, and will be available across all FiOS TV systems on Channel 496, at no additional cost. FiOS TV is now available in parts of Virginia, Maryland, Texas, Massachusetts, Florida, California, and New York.
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While cable thefts and vandalism are a problem for utility companies nationwide, Verizon says the problem is especially bad in West Virginia, where over 17,000 customers, including first responders, have lost service for up to five days.
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Cablevision Systems Corp. said on  Thursday it will have the capability to carry more than 500  channels of high definition programming by the end of the year.
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HEMPSTEAD, N.Y., Sept. 18  /PRNewswire/ -- Verizon today began offering its FiOS TV service to more Long Island consumers, offering a true choice for subscription television and on-demand programming via the company's all-digital, fiber-optic network.
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The U.S. government raised $2.25  billion in an auction of wireless airwaves that ended on  Tuesday, with Verizon Wireless and a partner collectively  winning 63 licenses with almost $697.4 million in bids.
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About 6,300 people, on average, on any given weekday, are watching the new Fox Business Network, according to early estimates compiled by Nielsen Media Research.
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Verizon has announced an upgrade to its DSL service in 12 states, providing a maximum download speed of 3Mbps and up to 768Kbps of upload speed.