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Verizon Communications Inc. 's subscribers for its FiOS television service roughly doubled in 2008 while its two major competitors - Comcast, Charter Communications and RCN - reported drops in paid customers, according to cable subscription figures released by state Department of Telecommunications and Cable Thursday.

The telephony issue that won't go away -- special access fees -- is slated to be examined by the Federal Communications Commission, according to an FCC notice.

U.S. lawmakers said on Friday they introduced a measure aimed at overhauling an annual fund intended to ensure nationwide telephone service in high-cost, rural areas by including money for high-speed Internet use.

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission approved AT&T Inc's $944 million bid to buy Centennial Communications Corp , two sources familiar with the decision said on Thursday.

A 17-year-old is in critical condition this evening after being shot in the back of the head by a 15-year-old on the bus this morning tech Nov 6, 2009 Alexandra Micuda waited outside a Verizon store in San Francisco since before 3 a.m. to get the store's very first Google Android phone.

Verizon Communications Inc. defeated a group lawsuit over pension payments that may have cost the second-largest U.S. phone company about $1.67 billion.

Fears about the US economic recovery may have been overdone as strong house sales, construction and manufacturing data boosted stocks on Wall Street.

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission on Thursday said it was mulling whether changes are needed to regulations governing access to telephone lines largely controlled by telecom giants.

Lots of risk, with very little upside. That's how regulatory staff in Oregon and Washington judge Verizon Communications' plan to sell its phone, Internet and cable TV business to Frontier Communications Corp.

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Furthering its commitment to online safety, Verizon is a major sponsor of the 2009 Family Online Safety Institute 2009 conference, Building a Culture of Responsibility from Online Safety to Digital Citizenship, which opens here Wednesday .

By Todd Spangler -- Multichannel News, 11/4/2009 1:52:33 PM The National Advertising Division of the Council of Better Business Bureaus has referred Comcast's decision to not participate in the industry group's adjudication process involving the advertising claim that the company provides "fiber-optic network" services to the Federal Trade ...

FairPoint Communications will continue to expand its broadband service despite filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy this week, company executives said.

Qwest Communications International reported a 6% decline in its third quarter profit as it continued to lose landline subscribers.

The following stocks were among those that moved substantially or traded heavily Wednesday on the New York Stock Exchange: NYSE: Verizon Communications Inc., up 75 cents at $29.95 Verizon Wireless' Droid will go on sale for $200 next week as the company taps into the growing appetite for smart phones.

AT&T Inc is suing Verizon Wireless in an effort to stop its bigger mobile rival from using "misleading" coverage maps in advertisements that AT&T says are causing it to lose "incalculable market share." According to the lawsuit which AT&T filed in Atlanta federal court, a recently launched ad campaign shows maps with white spaces that mislead ...

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U.S. mobile operator says it sold more of RIM devices than expected, but has plenty of inventory.

Enterprises around the world now can seamlessly and cost-effectively transform their Ethernet local area networks into wide area networks, with Verizon Business' global expansion of its Virtual Private LAN Service .

To prepare for the holiday shopping season, many retailers build out their IT systems to accommodate the anticipated increase in online traffic.