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Verizon Wireless Invested Around $730 million in California

Digg / Tech Industry News  Fri, 01/27/2012 - 12:10

California benefitted from a great investment by Verizon Wireless. More than $729 million was spent on all the materials and equipment just in California.


 

Is Verizon Wireless Violating Its Promise To Be Open By Blocking...

Techdirt  Thu, 12/22/2011 - 22:01

You may recall that, back in 2007, Verizon Wireless promised to be more open with its network.

In 2008, it made that commitment a bit more forcefully under the law, when it won the C-block auction for 700 Mhz spectrum.

Part of the rules of that auction were that if the bidding reached a certain level (a level that Google bid to exactly), then there would be openness requirements on the network.


 

Motorola Droid Bionic: Hands On

Digg / Tech Industry News  Wed, 09/07/2011 - 08:00

The long-awaited Motorola Droid Bionic is arriving at Verizon Wireless on Sept. 8. Here are our first impressions of the hot new smartphone.


 

Motorola DROID BIONIC hands-on

Digg / Tech Industry News  Wed, 09/07/2011 - 06:40

We've spent just about a day with the Motorola DROID BIONIC for Verizon Wireless, and while that's not long enough to put together a review...


 

Verizon To Bludgeon Data Hogs With Fees

InformationWeek Internet News  Tue, 05/24/2011 - 14:44

Wireless network operators have yet to settle on the best policy for managing bandwidth hogs, but Verizon Wireless plans to move to tiered data plans this summer.


 

As People Realize That There's Tons Of Mobile Phone Tracking Dat...

Techdirt  Fri, 04/29/2011 - 15:25

While there's been plenty of concern in the past couple weeks about Apple's iPhone/iPad location data, followed by Google's Android location data, plenty of people pointed out from the beginning that what both companies have done completely pales in comparison to the sort of data that mobile phone operators regularly collect on you.

Even as lawsuits have been filed against both Apple and Google, few of the people who are really upset about those two companies seem to recognize that what the operators have is much, much more complete.