Verizon

Verizon Wireless and Motorola are getting exclusive with their relationship. Starting with the Droid Ultra lineup, Motorola will be the only smartphone manufacturer to build Droid smartphones, Verizon marketing executive Jeff Dietel told CNET on Tuesday. Verizon and Motorola unveiled the Droid Ultra family of products, including the Droid Ultra itself, the Droid Ultra Maxx, Continue Reading →

After sending an invite to press teasing ”the next generation” of its “most popular family of devices,” Verizon has announced the launch of three new Droid devices made by Motorola: the $199 Droid Ultra, the $299 Droid Maxx, and the $99 Droid Mini. All three are available for pre-order now, and will ship on August Continue Reading →

As gigabit networks get all the love, Verizon has upped the ante on its own fiber to the home network, announcing a 500 Mbps (that’s half a gigabit) download tier with 100 Mbps upstream capacity. That’s blazing fast and will be available in far more markets than Google’s gigabit network or the one-off municipal networks Continue Reading →

Once T-Mobile unveiled Jump, its program that gives you access to a phone upgrade every six months, AT&T and Verizon answered by announcing their own early upgrade plans. Verizon Edge lets you get a shiny new smartphone every six months, while AT&T Next gives you a new phone once a year. Like T-Mobile Jump, both Continue Reading →

Within the space of little more than a week, three of the largest carriers in the US have introduced completely new plans to go alongside traditional contract agreements and prepaid services. T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon Wireless, with their new plans called Jump, Next, and Edge, respectively, are all going after the same thing: subscribers who Continue Reading →

Shelly Palmer chats with Dari Alexander and Steve Lacy on Fox 5’s News at 5 about Verizon Edge, AT&T Next and T-Mobile Jump. Continue Reading →

Verizon has echoed the new pricing models of rivals T-Mobile and AT&T with its very own, called Edge. The plan will offer customers more frequent upgrades, and also ease the cost of smartphone subsidies on Verizon’s balance sheet. Verizon says the Edge device payment plan spreads the retail price of a smartphone over 24 months, Continue Reading →

Tech culture is a funny thing. If you track tech news, releases and new ideas closely enough, you’ll notice there’s a very apparent trend that pops up all the time: Some company has a truly original idea. Every competing company copies that idea. It’s funny and sad at the same time, and it’s the same Continue Reading →

Back in April, after extending upgrade periods to a full 24 months, Verizon introduced a new device payment that would allow customers to upgrade phones by purchasing them at full prices with the payments spread out over a 12-month period. According to sources of ours, Verizon will introduce a new upgrade initiative on August 25 Continue Reading →

Sometimes getting beat to market isn’t a bad thing. Though AT&T was a full year behind Verizon Wireless in deploying its LTE systems, it’s now routinely outscoring Verizon on multiple network speed and performance tests. Last spring, RootMetrics clocked AT&T’s average LTE network speeds a full 4.3 Mbps faster than Verizon’s. PCMag’s recent extensive nationwide Continue Reading →