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Verizon officials said that they did not know emergency service was out during the derecho storm that hit the Washington area last month, The Washington Post reported, until the company was contacted by the county. A report to be released Wednesday shows that Verizon saw “significant problems”with its systems — problems that the company had Continue Reading →

Verizon and a consortium of cable companies have struck a deal with regulators to scale back their joint marketing arrangement to gain approval for their $3.9 billion wireless-spectrum deal, according to sources in a Wall Street Journal report. Verizon and the cable consortium — which includes Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Bright House Communications — Continue Reading →

Familiar icons – at least to gamers – have started appearing in the Verizon Apps store for Android smartphones. Verizon on Tuesday said it has finished labeling every single app in its portal with the Entertainment Software Ratings Board’s nomenclature, giving parents a basic framework to determine whether any given app is appropriate for their Continue Reading →

You always know a new iPhone is coming when the price on the current model drops, and so it begins: Sprint has reduced the price of a new 16 GB iPhone 4S to $149.99, a drop of $50. The carrier is also waiving its activation fee. The offer is shown on Sprint’s website. Price cuts Continue Reading →

Unnamed sources have told the Wall Street Journal that Google has been having internal discussions about possibly expanding its super-speedy Google Fiber service into markets that aren’t currently being served by Verizon’s FiOS network. WSJ’s report provided no further details on specific markets that Google is eyeing for possible expansion, and would only note that Continue Reading →

A fallen angel took flight as Sprint soared by 20% on Thursday after an interesting June quarter. The overall net subscriber loss number for postpaid subs was not that great at 240,000, but the 1.5 million iPhone customer adds was about 200,000 above expectations. Even more importantly, the key profitability gauge of EBITDA came in Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/120727_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] I wasn’t exaggerating when I said recently that the Internet speed wars were beginning. Google has now entered the race by building their own fiber optic network, and its new service is light years ahead of Comcast and Verizon when it comes to speed and price.  Google Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/120726_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] In order to compete with Verizon Fios, Comcast has announced that it will increase Internet speeds in ten Northeast markets. Its new tier will offer download speeds of up to 305 Mbps and upload speeds of up to 65 Mbps. In case that sounded like gibberish, let Continue Reading →

Not long after Verizon doubled its highest FiOS Internet speeds to 300 megabits per second, Comcast today announced a brand-new speed tier that will hit 305Mbps. Coincidentally, the new Xfinity Platinum Internet will initially be available in the Northeast US, where Verizon FiOS is also prevalent. Presumably, if Verizon FiOS offered speed of 310Mbps, Comcast Continue Reading →

In February, Coinstar subsidiary Redbox announced a joint venture with Verizon to launch a streaming video service. Later this afternoon, we’re told, the companies will provide a bit more insight into the partnership, though details of the service are still extremely limited. Here’s what will be revealed: The service will be launched in internal alpha Continue Reading →