Verizon Communications News

The matter of rooting Samsung's latest Android flagship became a bit controversial when it was revealed that the smartphone will ship with its bootloader locked .

As criticism mounts over Verizon's move to replace its copper-based voice lines with its new Voice Link service in areas of New York and New Jersey impacted by Hurricane Sandy, the carrier went to work explaining the logic behind its actions.

There's quite a bit of competition among carriers in the U.S., which is good as it promotes substantial growth in the industry at large.

When Virginia Ruesterholz arrived at Stevens Institute of Technology as a freshman at the end of the 1970s, women were scarce on the Hoboken campus.

Speaking at the J.P. Morgan Global Technology, Media and Telecom Conference earlier this month, Verizon CFO Fran Shammo stated that the company's earliest FiOS markets are now reaching penetration targets and that most of their new customers are signing up for faster speeds.

Jennifer Lopez unexpectedly took the stage at a Verizon Wireless press conference Wednesday to talk about Latinos and wireless service.

Singer and actress Jennifer Lopez says she's opening a chain of cellphone stores and a website under the Viva Mobil brand.

Big phone companies have begun to sell the vast troves of data they gather about their subscribers' locations, travels and Web-browsing habits.

Con Edison, National Grid, NYSEG, LIPA, Verizon and Cablevision have hundreds of attorneys and lobbyists to push their interests and rate hikes in the Legislature and before regulatory agencies.

After the Close - After a volatile morning of trading, in which the major U.S. equity indexes seesawed back and forth around the neutral line, equities righted themselves around the midday hour and then the market pushed modestly higher thereafter and, for the most part, was able to hold onto the second-half gains by the closing bell.

The quarterly American Customer Satisfaction Index report released Tuesday shows consumers are generally becoming more satisfied with their cable TV companies, in particular the picture quality.

Mobile giant Vodafone Group PLC said Tuesday that it will retain its 45% share of Verizon Wireless's $7 billion dividend payment within the business as it seeks to bolster its flagging operations in Europe, improve its product offering and cover spectrum costs.

Vodafone posted the largest ever fall in its main revenue measure on Tuesday, forcing it to keep a dividend from its healthy U.S. arm to compensate for a slump in southern Europe.

We've covered countless Motorola X Phone rumors here and up till now there has been no confirmation from either Google or Motorola regarding the time frame in which this device will be released.

Verizon's attempt to hang up on their copper networks in Sandy-impacted areas has gotten more complicated after the NY Public Service Commission last week indicated hesitation at letting Verizon disconnect users state wide without first understanding the repercussions.

The Hartford, ranked #131 on the Fortune 500 List,appointed Virginia Ruesterholz to its Board of Directors.

In something of a going-away present to FCC chairman Julius Genachowski, whose last day was today , MetroPCS has dropped its challenge to the FCC's network neutrality rules.

He explains how the ecommerce giant taps into the power of social and mobile to help customers find and purchase exactly what they seek from among millions of sellers.

Such events , thought to have originated a few years ago in Japan, can draw tens of thousands of fans.

Tom Wheeler, nominated to become the new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, pledged to divest stakes in AT&T Inc, Dish Network Corp, Google Inc and dozens of other tech and telecoms companies if he is confirmed.