Slashdot Items Tagged "verizon"

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Wednesday March 20, 2024 @02:15PM US Broadband Providers To Begin Providing New Comparison Labels
Wednesday January 17, 2024 @10:03AM Verizon Writes Off $5.8 Billion From Enterprise as Sales Decline
Monday January 15, 2024 @03:47PM Verizon To Keep Charging Controversial Fee Despite $100 Million Settlement
Saturday January 06, 2024 @02:22AM Verizon Customers Could Get Up to $100 in $100M Settlement Over 'Administrative Charge' Fees
Friday December 08, 2023 @03:59PM Verizon Gave Phone Data To Armed Stalker Who Posed As Cop Over Email
Wednesday August 09, 2023 @05:38PM Verizon Is Shutting Down BlueJeans, a Videoconferencing App It Bought For $400 Million
Wednesday August 09, 2023 @12:01PM Verizon Raises Prices Again as Wireless Customer Growth Slows
Friday July 14, 2023 @04:47PM Ancient Lead-Covered Telephone Cables Have US Lawmakers Demanding Action
Wednesday May 17, 2023 @04:24PM Verizon's New Plans Make Sense To Nobody Except Verizon
Sunday January 01, 2023 @10:14PM Verizon Warns Its Last 3G Customers to Upgrade Before Losing Service
Friday December 30, 2022 @08:34AM Verizon in New Bedford, MA
Tuesday December 27, 2022 @05:17AM Verizon in Alexandria VA
Saturday June 18, 2022 @05:25PM Verizon, AT&T Agree to Delay Some 5G Rollouts Near Airports
Thursday May 26, 2022 @04:28PM Hacker Steals Database of Hundreds of Verizon Employees
Wednesday January 26, 2022 @02:23PM Verizon's TracFone Customers Complain of Attackers Stealing Their Phone Numbers
Wednesday January 05, 2022 @07:12PM FAA Agrees Not To Seek Any More 5G Delays From AT&T and Verizon
Saturday January 01, 2022 @02:46PM US Government Requests Two-Week Delay for 5G Deployment, Citing Aviation Safety
Friday December 17, 2021 @04:08PM Verizon Tries To Defend Collecting Browsing Data on its Network
Tuesday December 07, 2021 @03:11PM Verizon Once Again Expands Its Snoopvertising Ambitions
Monday December 06, 2021 @05:32PM Verizon Might Be Collecting Your Browsing History
Wednesday November 24, 2021 @08:38PM Verizon and AT&T To Temporarily Turn Down 5G Power To Address FAA Worries
Monday October 25, 2021 @04:21PM The FBI's Internal Guide For Getting Data From AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon
Wednesday October 13, 2021 @05:28PM Some of Verizon's Visible Cell Network Customers Say They've Been Hacked
Thursday September 02, 2021 @04:48PM Yahoo Is Yahoo Once More After New Owners Complete Acquisition
Thursday August 05, 2021 @01:30PM Verizon Enlists AI in 5G Network Build-out
Thursday May 20, 2021 @05:07PM Verizon Forces Users Onto Pricier Plans To Get $50-Per-Month Government Subsidy
Monday May 03, 2021 @05:55PM About 1.5 Million People Still Pay for AOL
Friday April 30, 2021 @12:53PM Telecom Goes To War With New York Over Low-Income Broadband Law
Thursday April 29, 2021 @05:40PM Verizon Is Weighing a Sale of Yahoo, AOL
Tuesday April 13, 2021 @09:10PM T-Mobile, Verizon, and AT&T Have Reportedly Killed Their RCS Joint Venture
Thursday April 08, 2021 @05:04PM Verizon Recalls 2.5 Million Hotspot Devices Due To Fire Hazard
Wednesday March 31, 2021 @05:54PM Verizon Will Shut Down Its 3G Network In 2022
Friday March 26, 2021 @04:54PM T-Mobile, Verizon, AT&T Stop SMS Hijacks After Motherboard Investigation
Wednesday February 24, 2021 @06:52PM Verizon Leads 5G Airwave Bidding With Record $45 Billion Splurge
Tuesday January 05, 2021 @11:26PM Verizon Indefinitely Delays 3G Network Shutdown
Friday January 01, 2021 @09:53PM Watch Out: This Verizon Smishing Scam Is Crazy Realistic
Wednesday December 23, 2020 @12:37PM 5G Auction Shatters Record as Bidding Tops $66 Billion
Tuesday December 22, 2020 @10:34PM Verizon's Nationwide 5G Can Be Slower Than Its LTE Network, Tests Show
Monday November 30, 2020 @09:51PM Verizon Wiring Up 500K Homes With FiOS To Settle Lawsuit
Thursday November 19, 2020 @04:58PM BuzzFeed Strikes Deal To Buy HuffPost From Verizon Media
Wednesday September 23, 2020 @04:51PM T-Mobile Hits Back At AT&T and Verizon After Spectrum-Hoarding Accusations
Tuesday September 22, 2020 @07:16PM T-Mobile Amassed 'Unprecedented Concentration of Spectrum,' AT&T Complains
Monday September 14, 2020 @04:44PM Verizon Acquires Tracfone In a Deal Worth More Than $6 Billion
Tuesday July 14, 2020 @05:51PM Verizon Has Turned To Google Cloud's Contact Center AI To Automate Phone Calls
Tuesday April 28, 2020 @03:53PM Comcast Waives Data Cap Until At Least June 30 In Response To Pandemic
Monday April 27, 2020 @05:29PM Verizon, Comcast Will Not Cancel Service Through June Due To Coronavirus
Thursday April 16, 2020 @10:10AM Verizon To Buy Videoconferencing Software Company BlueJeans
Thursday April 09, 2020 @10:23AM Verizon Now Handling an Average of 800 Million Wireless Calls a Day
Tuesday April 07, 2020 @05:11PM Verizon Is Cancelling Home Internet Installations During the Pandemic
Friday March 13, 2020 @04:16PM Coronavirus Could Force ISPs To Abandon Data Caps Forever
Friday March 13, 2020 @01:34PM Major U.S. Internet Firms Agree To Not Cancel Service Over Next 60 Days
Wednesday March 11, 2020 @04:14PM Yahoo Mobile: the Verizon Phone Plan That No One Asked For
Friday February 28, 2020 @05:01PM FCC Proposes Hefty Fines To Carriers for Not Protecting Consumer Location Data
Tuesday January 14, 2020 @06:22PM Verizon Media Launches OneSearch, a Privacy-Focused Search Engine
Thursday January 09, 2020 @07:01PM Verizon Will Finally Sell You TV Without a Contract
Wednesday December 11, 2019 @07:24PM Verizon Lays Off More Yahoo/AOL Employees
Monday December 09, 2019 @11:23AM Verizon Kills Email Accounts of Archivists Trying To Save Yahoo Groups History
Thursday December 05, 2019 @10:00AM FCC Says Wireless Carriers Lie About Coverage 40% of the Time
Friday November 29, 2019 @03:50PM SMS Replacement is Exposing Users To Text, Call Interception Thanks To Sloppy Telecos
Wednesday November 27, 2019 @07:24PM AT&T and Verizon Agree To Change Their eSIM Practices
Thursday November 07, 2019 @02:47PM A Ton of People Received Text Messages Overnight That Were Originally Sent on Valentine's Day
Thursday October 24, 2019 @08:38PM The Four Major Carriers Finally Agree To Replace SMS With a New RCS Standard
Tuesday October 22, 2019 @05:34PM Verizon's 5G Network Can Only Cover 'Certain Seating Areas' In a Basketball Stadium
Tuesday August 27, 2019 @12:56PM Verizon's Anti-Robocall Service Will be Automatically Enabled on Android Phones
Monday August 12, 2019 @04:44PM Verizon To Sell Tumblr To WordPress Owner
Friday August 09, 2019 @05:54PM Verizon Demands $880 From Rural Library For Just 0.44GB of Roaming Data
Thursday August 08, 2019 @04:58PM Verizon: 5G Speeds On Low-Spectrum Bands Will Be More Like 'Good 4G'
Monday July 29, 2019 @05:36PM Experts Say the DOJ Justification For T-Mobile/Sprint Merger Approval Is a Joke
Wednesday June 26, 2019 @06:11PM FCC Says Verizon Can SIM Lock Phones Again
Monday June 24, 2019 @05:03PM How Verizon and a BGP Optimizer Knocked Large Parts of the Internet Offline Today
Thursday June 13, 2019 @12:42PM Huawei Asks Verizon To Pay Over $1 Billion For Over 230 Patents
Thursday June 06, 2019 @01:20PM Robocalls Can Now Get Blocked By Your Carrier By Default
Wednesday June 05, 2019 @10:45AM New Law Could Make Verizon Pay a Decade's Worth of Taxes It Avoided
Thursday May 16, 2019 @08:07PM Verizon's 5G Network Is Now Hitting Gigabit Download Speeds
Thursday May 16, 2019 @01:09PM US Telecom Operators Say They've (Mostly) Stopped Selling Your Location Data To Shady Middlemen
Saturday May 04, 2019 @10:55PM Pornhub Expresses Interest In Acquiring Tumblr
Thursday April 25, 2019 @04:30PM Wireless Carriers Fight Ban On Throttling Firefighters During Emergencies
Thursday April 25, 2019 @03:06PM Record Number of Consumers Waiting To Upgrade Their Cellphones
Wednesday April 10, 2019 @12:00PM Net Neutrality Bill Sails Through the House But Faces an Uncertain Political Future
Tuesday April 09, 2019 @04:10PM Verizon Issues Patch For Vulnerabilities on Millions of Fios Routers
Wednesday April 03, 2019 @06:14PM Verizon Begins Rolling Out Its 5G Wireless Network In Chicago, Minneapolis
Saturday March 30, 2019 @01:09PM Phone Carrier Apps Can Help Fight Robocalls -- Sometimes, Even For Free
Friday March 22, 2019 @11:13AM AT&T's 5G E Falls Short of T-Mobile and Verizon 4G Speeds: OpenSignal
Wednesday March 13, 2019 @02:24PM Verizon Says 5G Network Will Cost Extra $10 a Month
Saturday February 23, 2019 @11:31PM Verizon Asks FCC To Let It Lock New Smartphones For 60 Days
Thursday February 21, 2019 @06:36PM Verizon Plans To Roll Out Its 5G Mobile Network In 30 Cities This Year
Wednesday February 20, 2019 @05:59PM Are We Ready For 5G Phones?
Wednesday February 13, 2019 @04:55PM FCC Chairman Warns of 'Regulatory Intervention' as He Criticizes Carriers' Anti-Robocall Plans
Friday January 18, 2019 @08:14PM Verizon Offers Free Robocall Blocking, Two Years After AT&T and T-Mobile
Friday January 18, 2019 @01:54PM Verizon Will Give Subscribers Free Access To Anti-Robocall Tools
Thursday January 17, 2019 @05:46PM Verizon Blames School Text Provider In Dispute Over 'Spam' Fee
Monday January 14, 2019 @11:56PM Verizon Charges New 'Spam' Fee For Texts Sent From Teachers To Students
Tuesday January 08, 2019 @05:08PM Verizon Says It Won't Launch Fake 5G Icons Like AT&T Did
Friday December 28, 2018 @12:08PM FCC Says It is Investigating CenturyLink 911 Outage
Tuesday December 11, 2018 @07:01PM Verizon Admits Defeat With $4.6 Billion AOL-Yahoo Writedown
Monday December 10, 2018 @06:14PM At Least One Major Carrier Lied About Its 4G Coverage, FCC Review Finds
Monday December 10, 2018 @05:53PM Verizon Announces 10,400 Employees Will Voluntarily Leave the Company
Friday December 07, 2018 @06:05PM Trump's Pick To Be the Next Attorney General Has Opposed Net Neutrality Rules For Years
Tuesday November 20, 2018 @07:41PM US Wireless Data Prices Are Among the Most Expensive On Earth
Tuesday October 30, 2018 @01:52PM Apple's Dual-SIM Tech Ruins Verizon Coverage
Friday October 19, 2018 @06:29PM Ajit Pai Killed Rules That Could Have Helped Florida Recover From Hurricane
Thursday October 18, 2018 @06:08PM Internet Provider Groups Sue Vermont Over Net Neutrality Law
Wednesday October 03, 2018 @03:55PM Verizon is Offering Buyout Packages To as Many as 44,000 Management Employees; Some IT Employees Will Be Transferred To Indian Outsourcing Firm Infosys [Update]
Wednesday September 19, 2018 @04:26PM Despite Data Caps and Throttling, Industry Says Mobile Can Replace Home Internet
Monday September 17, 2018 @02:41PM Altaba To Settle Lawsuits Relating To Yahoo Data Breach For $47 Million
Saturday September 08, 2018 @10:57PM Verizon Lobbyist Runs For New York Attorney General As the State Sues FCC Over Net Neutrality Repeal
Friday August 31, 2018 @08:21PM FCC Criticized For Surrendering Power To Punish Verizon After Firefighters Got Throttled During Wildfire
Wednesday August 29, 2018 @05:19AM Yahoo, Bucking Industry, Scans Emails for Data To Sell Advertisers
Saturday August 25, 2018 @08:07PM Facing 'Net Neutrality' Criticism, Verizon Suddenly Lifts Data Caps On All Public Safety Workers
Wednesday August 22, 2018 @04:55PM Fire Department Rejects Verizon's 'Customer Support Mistake' Excuse For Throttling
Tuesday August 21, 2018 @04:33PM Verizon Throttled Fire Department's 'Unlimited' Data During Calif. Wildfire
Tuesday August 14, 2018 @07:32PM Verizon Nears 5G Launch Deals With Apple and Google: Bloomberg
Tuesday August 07, 2018 @04:25PM Verizon 'Grossly Overstated' Its 4G LTE Coverage In Government Filings, Trade Group Says
Monday August 06, 2018 @03:26PM Verizon Didn't Bother To Write a Privacy Policy For Its 'Privacy Protecting' VPN
Thursday August 02, 2018 @08:46PM How AT&T and Verizon Rip Off DSL Customers
Thursday August 02, 2018 @08:28PM Motorola Launches Verizon-Exclusive Moto Z3 Smartphone, 5G Moto Mod
Tuesday July 17, 2018 @02:57AM Verizon Confirms That It Will No Longer Activate 3G Phones
Sunday July 15, 2018 @02:19PM Millions of Verizon Customer Records Exposed In Security Lapse
Tuesday June 19, 2018 @12:21PM Verizon To End Location Data Sales To Brokers
Friday June 15, 2018 @02:51PM Verizon's New Phone Plan Proves It Has No Idea What 'Unlimited' Actually Means
Friday June 15, 2018 @02:44PM Some Prominent Tech Companies Are Paying Big Money To Kill a California Privacy Initiative
Monday May 21, 2018 @04:40PM Should T-Mobile Stop Claiming It Has 'Best Unlimited Network'?
Tuesday April 24, 2018 @07:52PM AT&T, Verizon Under US Investigation For Collusion To Lock In Customers
Sunday April 22, 2018 @01:23AM SmugMug Buys Flickr, Vows To Revitalize the Photo Service
Thursday April 19, 2018 @02:36PM Comcast's New Wireless Service Goes Live For Current Xfinity Subscribers
Friday April 06, 2018 @05:21PM Comcast, AT&T, Verizon Pose a Greater Surveillance Risk Than Facebook
Monday April 02, 2018 @12:23PM Verizon Has Been the Fastest US Mobile Carrier in Last Six Months: Wirefly
Friday March 30, 2018 @04:56PM Huawei Commits To Bringing Its Products To the US Despite Government Security Concerns
Wednesday March 28, 2018 @07:24PM Verizon Plans To Launch a Palm Smartphone Later This Year
Tuesday March 27, 2018 @01:59PM AT&T/Verizon Lobbyists To 'Aggressively' Sue States That Enact Net Neutrality
Thursday March 15, 2018 @05:57PM Verizon Will Fix Broadband Networks, Landlines To Resolve Investigation
Monday February 12, 2018 @12:40PM Verizon is Locking Its Phones Down To Combat Theft
Saturday February 10, 2018 @08:05PM There Are Ajit Pai 'Verizon Puppet' Jokes That the FCC Doesn't Want You To Read
Tuesday January 30, 2018 @05:24PM Verizon Drops Plans To Sell Huawei Phones Due To US Government Pressure
Wednesday December 06, 2017 @09:15PM FCC Chair Ajit Pai Falsely Claims Killing Net Neutrality Will Help Sick and Disabled People
Thursday November 30, 2017 @06:34PM Verizon Will Launch 5G Home Internet Access In 2018
Friday November 17, 2017 @06:57PM Verizon: No 4G-Level Data Caps For 5G Home Service
Monday November 13, 2017 @02:45PM Verizon, AT&T Announce Plans To Build and Share Hundreds of New Cell Towers
Thursday November 02, 2017 @04:25PM Another Million Subscribers Cut the Pay TV Cord Last Quarter
Tuesday October 31, 2017 @05:58PM Verizon Wants To Ban States From Protecting Your Privacy
Wednesday October 25, 2017 @04:16PM Verizon Will Stop Throttling Video On Unlimited Plans If You Pay An Extra $10 Per Month
Thursday October 19, 2017 @05:33PM Verizon Loses 18,000 Pay TV Subscribers, Signals Delay For Live TV Streaming Service
Monday October 16, 2017 @08:54PM Mobile Phone Companies Appear To Be Selling Your Location To Almost Anyone
Tuesday October 03, 2017 @04:55PM Yahoo Triples Estimate of Breached Accounts To 3 Billion
Monday October 02, 2017 @06:43PM Ex-Verizon Lawyer Ajit Pai Confirmed To Second Term As FCC Chair
Monday October 02, 2017 @04:42PM T-Mobile Won't Stop Claiming Its Network Is Faster Than Verizon's
Friday September 22, 2017 @03:35PM Verizon Backtracks Slightly In Plan To Kick Customers Off Network
Saturday September 16, 2017 @12:17AM 8,500 Verizon Customers Disconnected Because of 'Substantial' Data Use
Monday September 11, 2017 @03:30PM T-Mobile Named Fastest US Mobile Carrier by New Wirefly Report
Tuesday September 05, 2017 @04:59PM Verizon Up Offers Rewards in Exchange For Customers' Personal Information
Tuesday August 22, 2017 @09:10PM Verizon To Start Throttling All Smartphone Videos To 480p or 720p
Thursday August 03, 2017 @04:29AM Verizon, AT&T Customers Are Getting Slower Speeds Because of Unlimited Data Plans
Wednesday August 02, 2017 @06:29PM Verizon's New Rewards Program Lets It Track Your Browsing History
Saturday July 22, 2017 @04:44PM Verizon Accused of Throttling Netflix and YouTube, Admits To 'Video Optimization'
Wednesday July 19, 2017 @04:00PM Telecom Lobbyists Downplayed 'Theoretical' Security Flaws in Mobile Data Backbone
Thursday July 13, 2017 @11:09AM Millions of Verizon Customer Records Exposed in Security Lapse
Thursday July 13, 2017 @10:25AM Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T Want Congress To Make a Net Neutrality Law Because They Will Write It
Wednesday July 12, 2017 @05:56PM 3 ISPs Have Spent $572 Million To Kill Net Neutrality Since 2008
Thursday June 29, 2017 @09:20AM Tumblr's Unclear Future Shows That There's No Money in Internet Culture
Monday June 26, 2017 @04:31PM 'I'm Suing New York City To Loosen Verizon's Iron Grip'
Wednesday June 21, 2017 @08:18PM Verizon Is Killing Tumblr's Fight For Net Neutrality
Tuesday June 13, 2017 @11:50AM Verizon Closes $4.5B Acquisition of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer Resigns
Wednesday June 07, 2017 @07:13PM Verizon Expected To Cut Up To 1,000 Yahoo, AOL Jobs After Acquisition
Thursday May 11, 2017 @05:10PM Verizon Outbids AT&T For Nationwide 5G Wireless Spectrum
Monday April 24, 2017 @04:27PM Verizon's $70 Gigabit Internet Is Half the Price of Older 750Mbps Tier
Saturday April 22, 2017 @05:07PM Verizon.net 'Gets Out Of The Email Business'
Monday April 03, 2017 @06:20PM Verizon Is Rebranding Yahoo, AOL As 'Oath'
Thursday March 30, 2017 @07:45AM Verizon To Force 'AppFlash' Spyware On Android Phones
Monday March 13, 2017 @07:59PM NYC Sues Verizon For Breaking Promise To Make FiOS Available To All Residents
Thursday March 09, 2017 @11:33PM Verizon Wireless Wades Right Back Into the Net Neutrality Debate With Fios Deal
Monday February 27, 2017 @05:11PM Battle of the Carriers: T-Mobile's New Promotion Offers Three Unlimited Data Lines For $100
Monday February 27, 2017 @11:20AM AT&T Undercuts Verizon, T-Mobile With New Unlimited Plan
Wednesday February 22, 2017 @06:58PM T-Mobile Promises Big LTE Boost From 5GHz Wi-Fi Frequencies
Wednesday February 22, 2017 @11:50AM Verizon To Begin 5G User Trials in 11 Markets by Middle of Year
Tuesday February 21, 2017 @09:54AM Verizon Revises Its Deal With Yahoo, Reduces Price Of Acquisition By $350M
Friday February 17, 2017 @05:40PM SoftBank Is Willing To Cede Control of Sprint To Get T-Mobile Merger Done, Says Report
Thursday February 16, 2017 @06:41PM AT&T Is the Latest Carrier To Offer Unlimited Data For All Its Customers
Thursday February 16, 2017 @01:38PM Sprint's New Unlimited Plan Adds HD Streaming, Four Lines For $90
Wednesday February 15, 2017 @04:14PM Yahoo Notifying Users of Malicious Account Activity as Verizon Deal Progresses
Tuesday February 14, 2017 @04:44PM University DDoSed By Its Own IoT Devices
Monday February 13, 2017 @09:23PM T-Mobile Responds To Verizon By Improving Its Own Unlimited Data Plan
Saturday February 11, 2017 @06:50PM College Network Attacked With Its Own Insecure IoT Devices
Thursday February 09, 2017 @01:39AM Verizon and T-Mobile Are In a Virtual Tie For the Best Network In the US
Wednesday February 08, 2017 @04:44PM Comcast Should Stop Claiming It Has 'Fastest Internet,' Ad Board Rules
Friday February 03, 2017 @06:40PM FCC Rescinds Claim That AT&T, Verizon Violated Net Neutrality
Tuesday January 31, 2017 @11:22AM Even Sprint Beat AT&T and Verizon in Customer Growth
Monday January 23, 2017 @07:09PM Yahoo Sale To Verizon Delayed After Hack Disclosures
Monday January 23, 2017 @04:40PM Yahoo Faces SEC Probe Over Data Breaches
Wednesday January 18, 2017 @10:48AM Thousands of Note 7 Phones Still in Use On Verizon, All Non-911 Calls To Be Rerouted To Customer Service
Tuesday January 17, 2017 @04:25PM Verizon Looking To Buy Comcast or Charter, Says Report
Wednesday January 11, 2017 @11:14PM New FCC Report Says AT&T and Verizon Zero-Rating Violates Net Neutrality
Monday January 09, 2017 @08:45PM The End of Yahoo: Marissa Mayer To Resign; Yahoo To Change Its Name To Altaba
Monday January 09, 2017 @05:14PM Verizon Purges Unlimited Data Customers, Targets Those Using 200GB
Thursday January 05, 2017 @01:31PM Verizon Executive Says Company Unsure About Yahoo Deal
Friday December 16, 2016 @04:53PM Google Joins the Open Source Cloud Foundry Foundation
Friday December 16, 2016 @04:14PM AT&T, Verizon Tell FCC To Back Off On Net Neutrality Complaints
Thursday December 15, 2016 @04:51PM Verizon Changes Its Mind and Will Kill Samsung's Galaxy Note 7 on January 5th
Thursday December 15, 2016 @02:11PM Verizon Explores Lower Price or Even Exit From Yahoo Deal
Friday December 09, 2016 @02:37PM Verizon Says It Will Not Push Samsung's Update That Disables Galaxy Note7 Because Of User Inconvenience
Friday December 02, 2016 @03:52PM FCC Calls Out AT&T, Verizon For 'Zero Rating' Their Own Video Apps