Tag: Verizon

March 6, 2017

In a grab at the future of wireless, 11 cities are looking to benefit from a Verizon Wireless pilot program that deploys the company’s first 5G network. The telecom’s move has prompted CIOs to forecast greater momentum for smart city […]

February 24, 2017

The price Verizon will pay for Yahoo dropped this week as the two companies confirmed that each has agreed to a $350 million price cut, bringing the value of the deal down to $4.48 billion. News of the revised deal […]

February 15, 2017

OpenSignal’s February 2017 “State of Mobile Networks Survey” found that T-Mobile, the so-called “uncarrier,” is giving the incumbent carriers a run for their money. The latest report from OpenSignal measured network performance of the four major U.S. carriers: AT&T, Sprint, […]

January 24, 2017

Verzion this morning reported adjusted fourth quarter earnings of 86 cents per share, on revenue of $32.3 billion. On the earnings side, that falls short of what Wall Street analysts had expected — EPS of 89 cents per share and $32.1 […]

January 12, 2017

With just over a week left as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Tom Wheeler today accused AT&T and Verizon Wireless of violating net neutrality rules with paid data cap exemptions. But with the FCC about to switch to Republican […]

December 15, 2016

On December 14, Yahoo announced that after an investigation into data provided by law enforcement officials in November, the company and outside forensics experts have determined that there was in fact a previously undetected breach of data from over 1 […]

October 17, 2016

Verizon Wireless isn’t exactly known for great customer service — just ask the thousands of customers who say the company recently overbilled them. Now Verizon’s customer support will very likely get worse. The company plans to close call centers in five states, […]

October 14, 2016

Verizon has signaled that Yahoo’s massive data breach may be enough reason to halt its US$4.8 billion deal to buy the internet company. On Thursday, Verizon’s general counsel Craig Silliman said the company has a “reasonable basis” to believe that […]

March 25, 2016

Verizon Enterprise, a bulwark against cyberattacks at many large organizations, has suffered a security breach itself. A flaw in the company’s systems allowed an attacker to steal contact information on Verizon Enterprise customers, the company acknowledged Thursday. Verizon said it […]

March 15, 2016

Verizon has signed an agreement that makes it the second U.S. carrier to offer direct roaming in Cuba. The deal with Etecsa, a government-owned telecom, will enable direct voice calls between U.S. and Cuba. In November, Verizon rival Sprint became […]

March 4, 2016

The nation’s two largest telecom companies, AT&T and Verizon, have both taken strong positions supporting encryption, while AT&T took the added step Thursday of filing an amicus brief supporting Apple in a pending federal case. The two carriers are directly […]

February 9, 2016

Verizon, which acquired AOL last year, is now reportedly interested in taking on Yahoo as well. According to Bloomberg, the wireless telecom giant has tasked AOL CEO Tim Armstrong with figuring out how to make it happen. As Ars reported […]

February 8, 2016

The FCC last week granted Verizon and Qualcomm permission to conduct limited tests of LTE-U technology in Raleigh, North Carolina and Oklahoma City, ahead of a planned summit meeting next week. The commission’s grant of a “special temporary authority,” or […]

November 5, 2015

Analyzing 200,000 records may not seem like a big task. But when those records are security incidents with potentially hundreds of attributes each — types of bad actors, assets affected, category of organization and more — it starts getting a […]

June 30, 2015

A carrier technology that uses Wi-Fi frequencies to provide LTE connectivity could let the big wireless providers mess with your home connection and push you on to their networks, according to comments filed today with the FCC by several watchdog […]