verizon communications
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No One Came to Yahoo’s 30th Birthday Party
Yahoo!, or Yahoo, or just yahoo… There’s less and less to be excited about as time goes on, and Yahoo, too, has become more unenthused as its once-bright star waned over the past three decades. Once the most popular online directory and search engine on the web, Yahoo turned 30 years old last week, Jan.…
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AT&T, Verizon Delay Their 5G Rollout Plans Over Fears of Airline Interference
On Sunday, AT&T and Verizon heartily rejected requests from the U.S. government to delay the rollout of their 5G wireless services on the grounds that the tech could interfere with nearby airliners. Now, just a day later, it looks like the telco giants are reassessing the issue; The Washington Post reports the two companies are…
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Verizon Allowed to Swallow Tracfone Whole After FCC Approves $8.3 Billion Deal
The slow creep of U.S. carrier consolidation continues. In this instalment, Verizon is getting ready to gobble up millions of new wireless subscribers now that the Federal Communications Commission has officially approved its acquisition of Tracfone, one of the country’s largest providers of subsidized mobile phones for low-income people. The relatively under-the-radar $US6 (A$8.3) billion-plus…
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U.S. Telecom Companies Win Injunction to Put New York’s Affordable Internet Law on Hold
In a huge win for U.S. internet service providers, a U.S. federal judge on Friday granted a preliminary injunction to stall a New York law mandating affordable internet for low-income households.