Verizon Communications News

“It doesn't preclude them using Android in the future, they will have many OSes just like they have today”

Verizon Wireless is close to announcing that it will use new cellphones based on the LiMo Foundation 's mobile Linux operating system, in a move that will further push the No. via Unstrung

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“For the first quarter, we added customers across all of our consumer services, including basic video, and became the first cable company to achieve a 50 percent penetration rate for high-speed Internet”

During its first-quarter earnings report issued today, Cablevision announced that it added 2,000 basic video subscribers and 41,000 digital video subscribers, but it also reported a wider first-quarter deficit. via CED

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Verizon Wireless has permission to build a fourth cell-phone tower along the Adirondack Northway as part of its plan to fill a service gap along remote stretches of the upstate New York interstate. via WPTZ

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“Broadband deployment is a bright spot in the U.S. economy that provides high paying jobs, unprecedented infrastructure investment, and innovation. Why would Congress want to jeopardize all that with this bill?”

The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday introduced legislation that would bar network providers from discriminating against some Internet content. via Raw Story

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“It's having virtually zero impact.”

Just as the race for your TV, phone and Internet dollar speeds up, the gains for the companies peddling the triple-play service bundles have slowed to a crawl. via CNN Money

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VERIZON Communications' business unit said it would help build an undersea cable connecting Europe, the Middle East and India to expand its global network to support internet traffic. via NEWS.com.au

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Sprint Nextel Corp and Clearwire Corp are planning a $14.5 billion venture to build a wireless high-speed Internet network based on the emerging WiMax technology. via Earth Times

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It's easy to get caught up in the euphoria of a big merger - especially one as tantalizing as the speculation of marriage between Deutsche Telekom and Sprint Nextel . via Investopedia

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U.S. phone company Qwest Communications International Inc and Verizon Wireless said on Monday they signed a five-year agreement for the landline provider to sell Verizon's mobile phone services. via Reuters

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Shares of Sprint Nextel Corp. are rising on a Wall Street Journal report that Deutsche Telekom AG is poised to make a bid for the wireless telecommunication company. via Blogging Stocks

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