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6 Jun 2017, 12:40 pm by Jon Brodkin
The settlement of the union's complaint "will require the company to repair and replace bad cable, defective equipment, faulty back-up batteries, and to take down 15,000 double telephone poles," the Communications Workers of America (CWA) said Friday. [read post]
9 Feb 2007, 6:24 am
[JURIST] The US District Court of Maine [official website] has ruled that the Maine Public Utilities Commission (MPUC) [official website] cannot compel Verizon Communications [corporate website] to disclose whether the telephone company participated in the warrantless domestic surveillance program [JURIST news archive] run by the US National Security Agency (NSA) [official website]. [read post]
2 Apr 2014, 9:00 am by Carrie Cordero
If Verizon receives a valid request for business records, we will respond in a timely way, but companies should not be required to create, analyze or retain records for reasons other than business purposes. [read post]
19 Sep 2013, 8:49 am
In a letter to the Board of Public Utilities, the District 10 legislators asked the BPU to look into the matter as well as explore the option of requiring Verizon to wire these communities with fiber optics in order to ensure that all residents have adequate telephone services. [read post]
8 Jun 2018, 9:57 am by Ernesto Falcon
Many cities that launch their own community broadband service have some combination of 2 and 3 with their utility company while incumbent telephone companies like Verizon FIOS (which stopped deploying fiber years ago) started off with 1 and 2. [read post]
4 Sep 2014, 5:13 am by SHG
Moreover, the Enforcement Bureau learned that Verizon personnel failed to discover these problems until September 2012, and the company failed to notify the FCC of these problems until January 18, 2013, 126 days later. [read post]
Verizon stemmed from a horrific 2012 accident in Philadelphia, in which a woman suffered traumatic brain and spinal injuries after her car was rear-ended by a Verizon bucket truck (a large, heavy truck used to hoist an employee up in a bucket from which he or she can adjust cable or telephone lines), whose driver was talking on his cell phone at the time of the crash. [read post]
2 Aug 2016, 9:30 pm by Grace Knofczynski
AT&T and Verizon both indicated in comments that they intend to ensure backwards compatibility as they transition to real-time text. [read post]
15 Oct 2007, 10:06 pm
Verizon said it had received FBI administrative subpoenas, called national security letters, requesting data that would "identify a calling circle" for subscribers' telephone numbers, including people contacted by the people contacted by the subscriber. [read post]
31 Aug 2007, 5:21 am
When it’s an endorsement, argues the family of Bob Marley — marketing, image and music: Family Challenges Verizon Wireless Deal to Sell Bob Marley Ring Tones Chris Blackwell, a longtime spokesman for the Marley family, said by telephone from his home in Britain that he was originally approached by Verizon Wireless a few months ago and met with representatives of the company twice. [read post]
11 Jul 2013, 9:01 pm by John Dean
The order is breathtakingly broad, and it reveals that the federal government is clearly sweeping up information about BILLIONS of telephone calls in the United States, and based on the information Snowden has released, it is not likely that Verizon is the only telephone company that is subject to such an order. [read post]
16 Oct 2007, 11:49 am
Verizon Says It Turned Over Data Without Court Orders — pdf Verizon Communications, the nations second-largest telecom company, told congressional investigators that it has provided customers telephone records to federal authorities in emergency cases without court orders hundreds of times since 2005. [read post]
11 May 2006, 1:27 am
[JURIST] The National Security Agency (NSA) [official website] has been collecting phone records from major telephone companies AT&T, Verizon, and BellSouth [corporate websites] to study the calling patterns of millions of Americans in an effort to detect terrorist activity, according to a report [text] from USA Today on Thursday. [read post]
28 Mar 2017, 2:57 pm by Ernesto Falcon
If the bill is signed into law, companies like Cox, Comcast, Time Warner, AT&T, and Verizon will have free rein to hijack your searches, sell your data, and hammer you with unwanted advertisements. [read post]
6 Sep 2007, 6:43 am
  When deals like this come along, one may wonder how the company in question was able to charge so little and yet still turn a profit. [read post]
17 Aug 2015, 4:23 am by Rebecca Tushnet
landline telephones or cordless handsets. [read post]
12 May 2006, 7:58 am
[JURIST] Telecommunications company Qwest on Friday explained its decision to deny the National Security Agency (NSA) [official website] access to its customers' telephone records in contrast to competitors AT&T, Verizon, and BellSouth [corporate websites] which allowed that. [read post]
12 Mar 2018, 2:11 pm by Jon Brodkin
A settlement with Verizon "will require the company to repair 54 central offices across the state, replace bad cable, defective equipment, faulty back-up batteries, and to take down 64,000 double telephone poles," the Communications Workers of America (CWA) union said last week. [read post]
13 Oct 2009, 4:08 pm
POTS (plain old telephone service) is no longer the bread and butter of Verizon. [read post]
28 Apr 2014, 11:12 am by Courtney Bowman
Courtney BowmanLast month, a federal district court in the Northern District of California issued an order that may affect the policies of any company that records telephone conversations with consumers. [read post]