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The wireless unit of Verizon (VZ) reported year-over-year subscriber growth of 12 percent, but a mere 5 percent rise in voice revenues. Data revenue saved the day, surging 63 percent and lifting the company […]
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Competition brings out the best in employees, friends, and companies, as demonstrated brilliantly in Time Warner's attack ad against Verizon FiOS. The scenario is that a cocksure suburban dude is interrupted making a bowl of fiber cereal by the doorbell. He opens his door to find a nerdy pitchman for Verizon FiOS on his doorstep. When the kid waves his hands, magic red light streams around the word "FIBER." The homeowner raises his eyebrows and talks about how Time Warner has been using fiber optic cable for the past ten years. The FiOS kid can only respond by making more magic FIBER signs in the air.
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This South Bay city is the fourth community in California to vote on a video-franchise application from Verizon. The company obtained its first franchise in Beaumont last year and reached similar agreements with Murrieta and Apple Valley this year. Communities in Florida, Texas, Virginia and Massachusetts and New York have ... approved franchises for Verizon.
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On August 27, 2004, Bonnie O'Day reached a settlement with Verizon Wireless over a formal FCC complaint that she had filed against the company alleging its failure to make its cell phones accessible to people who are blind and visually impaired. Although the exact terms of the settlement are not being released, Verizon will be introducing an accessible phone later this year, and undertaking various steps to make its products more usable by people with vision disabilities.
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BroadbandAccess ... enables Verizon Wireless customers to download files approximately 10 times faster than customers of wireless service providers that use different broadly deployed network technologies. Furthermore, customers who travel outside the enhanced BroadbandAccess coverage area with an EV-DO device will switch seamlessly to the company's NationalAccess service.
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