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Verizon may have made it known that it does not want to bring its Fiber to the Premises -based FiOS outside of towns and cities where it has an existing service agreement in place, but a group of mayors in upstate New York charge the telco is deliberately ignoring their communities.

Verizon Wireless is down a little less than one percent to be trading at $41.04 early on Wednesday.

May 23 - Fitch Ratings has affirmed Verizon Communications Inc.'s Issuer Default Ratings and debt ratings as follows: --Long-term IDR at 'A'; --Senior unsecured debt at 'A'; --Short-term IDR at 'F1'; --Commercial paper at 'F1'. The Rating Outlook is Stable.

In the upcoming two-week period, there are two notable releases compared to two last year, classifying notable releases as those that grossed over $50 million in domestic box office.

Verizon Communications on Tuesday became the first service provider to say it will use Alcatel-Lucent's upcoming 7950 XRS core routing system, which will bring the French-American equipment vendor into the carrier core routing business for the first time in about a decade.

In order to complete a controversial $3.6 billion deal between a group of cable companies - including Comcast - Verizon Wireless will have to sell valuable high-speed spectrum in 12 markets.

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Despite chief executive Dan Hesse accepting that the company's big investment on Apple's iPhone will not pay off until 2015, Sprint is getting aggressive in taking on more of the smartphone consumer base in the U.S. from competitors AT&T and Verizon Wireless .

Verizon Wireless said on Monday it hired Loop Capital as a second adviser for a proposed sale of wireless spectrum, a move seen as an attempt to help it gain regulatory approval for its controversial plan to buy $3.9 billion of airwaves from cable companies.

Verizon and Redbox have teamed up to launched a new streaming service in August intended to compete with over-the-top services like Netflix .

Best Buy has slashed the price of iPhone 4 by half, offering the fourth-generation Apple smartphone for $49.99 at its stores.

The mayors of Albany, Troy and seven other upstate cities have written to the Justice Department and the Federal Communications Commission to express their concern that a deal Verizon Wireless has negotiated with many of the country's top cable companies to sell each others' products will harm consumers.

Service Provider Information Technology, or SPIT, is Light Reading's term for the evolving set of non-traditional telecom technologies that allow for a greater degree of flexibility in the creation, management, delivery, and monetization of new-generation communications services.

Mobile , Sprint , rural carriers, and advocacy group Public Knowledge have teamed up to battle Verizon's multi-faceted spectrum sale and cross-selling partnership with cable operators, objecting to various aspects of a deal that could firmly cement Verizon's spot as the nation's top carrier while squashing the competition.

The carrier will upgrade metro networks in the U.S. and other countries to 100-gigabit and use mesh designs for recovery from breaks Looking ahead to growing demand for bandwidth to feed large companies and computing clouds, Verizon Communications announced steps on Friday to increase the speed of the links its enterprise customers can buy and to ... (more)

Verizon Communications has had a long history of standing up against publishers seeking to subpoena information about its subscribers and their downloading habits, so it's not a big surprise to see Big Red telling John Wiley's lawyers to stuff it.

The wireless industry is currently waiting on a verdict from the Federal Communications Commission to decide on Verizon Wireless's proposed $3.6 billion partnership with cable companies, including Comcast .

Verizon Communications boosted earnings 15.7 percent on a 4.6 percent jump in revenue.

Apple thumbed its nose at its U.S. wireless partners in the first quarter of the year to announce iPhone sales that were above expectations despite falling domestic numbers.

Users of Google Android phones are getting increasingly confident of using their mobile device to buy coffee, pay wireless bills, and purchase movie tickets.