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Verizon Launching Wi-Fi Calling On 2 Samsung Phones
Verizon is joining AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile in offering Wi-Fi calling, but only with the Samsung Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge for now. Verizon...
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HTC Puffs Up Supply Of Android Marshmallow Phones With A9
HTC’s 5-inch A9 smartphone, one of the industry’s first smartphones with Android 6.0 Marshmallow OS, became available today through AT&T and Sprint, along with...
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Verizon Refreshes Droid Franchise With Turbo 2, Maxx 2
Verizon refreshed its Droid phone lineup with the launch of the Motorola-made Droid Maxx 2 and Droid Turbo 2, whose screen is promoted as...
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T-Mobile Taunts Verizon With Skywritten Message
A team of T-Mobile skywriters buzzed Verizon’s headquarters in Basking Ridge, N.J., this morning to deliver a skywritten message urging Verizon to abolish the...
Home Automation
Thieves And Storms Won’t Be Able To Silence Alarm.com’s LTE Voice
Alarm.com is expanding the capabilities of its LTE-connected security and home-automation system with the launch of Voice-over-LTE (VoLTE). With VoLTE service, homeowners get hands-free...
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Verizon Plans LTE-Only Phones But Not Phone Leasing
Verizon will probably begin offering LTE-only phones to consumers “more toward the end of 2016,” but the company has no plans for now to...
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Verizon, Cricket Add Twists To Today’s iPhone Launch
The iPhone 6s and 6s Plus went on sale today with a couple more twists. Verizon is launching the phones on an installment-payment plan...
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Verizon Specialist TCC Expands To More Than 700 Stores
TCC, the nation’s largest Verizon-exclusive cellular specialist by store count, got even larger with the acquisition of 88 We R Wireless stores in the...
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Best Buy Adding Verizon, AT&T To Its Real Estate Stable
Updated! AT&T and Verizon Wireless are the latest tenants at Best Buy. The mobile providers have begun rolling out branded in-store shops to select...
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$4.88 E Fun LTE Nextbook Ares Tablet Hits Walmart Shelves
Value-priced tablet maker E Fun is launching its first cellular-equipped tablets, one of which is priced at $4.88 with two-year Verizon contract. Both models...
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New Mobile Video Services On The Way From Rok, Verizon
Mobile video is getting a lot more attention from telecom companies. MVNO Rok Mobile, a cellular MVNO that offers a mobile music-streaming service, will...
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Verizon Plans To Test 5G In 2016
Verizon announced its intentions to bring fifth-gen (5G) wireless-data technology to the U.S. sooner than the industry consensus had forecast. The carrier said it...
Car Electronics
Verizon Launches Aftermarket Telematics Service
Verizon’s telematics unit rolled out Verizon’s first aftermarket telematics service, which offers such capabilities as GPS-based emergency assistance and stolen-vehicle tracking. The service, called...
Blogs
Verizon Wireless Fighting Back
Verizon Wireless has long contended it wouldn’t be dragged into the price-war mud, but it has stepped cautiously into the mud up to its...
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AT&T, Verizon Battle To Win Back Smartphone Defectors
Dallas – A limited-time promotion announced today by AT&T gives consumers $300 if they switch from another carrier and buy a smartphone. The promotion,...
Financial
Verizon Growth Plan: Dialing For Data
Bedminster, N.J. — Verizon continues to focus on driving up data usage to drive revenue growth, as its second-quarter financial results show. Tablets came...
CES-2016
Verizon Adds 8.3-Inch LG Tablet
Basking Ridge, N.J. – Verizon Wireless added the LG G Pad X8.3 tablet to its selection to complement a 7-inch LG tablet and 10.1-inch...
Industry
Verizon Sees Mobile Opportunity In AOL Acquisition
New York — Verizon Communications entered into an agreement to purchase AOL for around $4.4 billion to drive the telecom company’s ambitions in the...
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T-Mobile Sees Red
Bellevue, Wash. — T-Mobile put Verizon in its crosshairs, launching a free trial program targeted to Verizon subscribers and launching an anti-Verizon ad campaign....
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Verizon Joins AT&T In Offering BlackBerry Classic
Basking Ridge, N.J. – BlackBerry continued to gain some traction through carrier channels with the announcement that Verizon will offer the BlackBerry Classic. The...
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RadioShack Bankruptcy Plan Won’t Reshape Cellular Market
Fort Worth, Texas — RadioShack’s Chapter 11 plans, if approved, will eliminate AT&T, Verizon and select MVNOs, including TracFone, from almost all of the...
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Verizon Adds More Data To Plans
Basking Ridge, N.J. — Verizon Wireless is joining the price wars by tossing extra data into several More Everything shared-data plans and adding additional...
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Carriers Spend $41.3 Billion For More Wireless Spectrum
Washington — Verizon, AT&T and Dish came away from the FCC’s AWS-3 (Advanced Wireless Services 3) spectrum auctions as the biggest winners followed by...
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Verizon Takes Aim Against Regulation
Bedminster, N.J. — Google’s reported plan to become an MVNO (mobile virtual network operator) reselling Sprint and T-Mobile service “is another prime example of...
Car Electronics
Verizon Enters Telematics Aftermarket
Detroit — Verizon went to the International Detroit Auto Show here to unveil its first aftermarket car telematics service, expected to be available nationally...
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Carrier Price Wars Heat Up With Sprint Half-Off Deal
Overland Park, Kan. – Sprint pulled out the big guns in the intensifying carrier price wars, offering to halve the bills of Verizon and...
CES-2016
LG Adds Kid-Tracking Wearable
Englewood Cliffs, N.J. – LG expanded its wearables selection with the GizmoPal, a GPS-tracking watch phone for pre- to middle-school kids. The device became...
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Verizon To Open 12,000-Square-Foot Destination Store
Houston – Verizon Wireless will open its third and largest Destination Store here on Nov. 24 with 12,224 square feet of space in two...
CES-2016
LG Tablets Get More Carrier Distribution
Englewood Cliffs, N.J. — LG expanded the rollout of LTE-equipped G Pad tablets with the launch by Verizon of the LG G Pad 7.0...
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Verizon Adds Second-Gen Ellipsis Tablet
Basking Ridge, N.J. – Verizon Wireless unveiled its latest Verizon-brand LTE-equipped tablet, pricing it the same as its predecessor but increasing screen size and...
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Droid Turbo Gets XLTE, 4K Capture, Fast Charging
Basking Ridge, N.J. – Verizon’s next-generation Droid-brand phone, available Oct. 30 through direct and indirect channels, will be the carrier’s first Droid with dual-band...
Financial
Tablets Take Lead In Verizon’s Q3
Bedminster, N.J. — Third-quarter sales of LTE-equipped tablets again powered a double-digit percentage gain in Verizon’s retail postpaid net new subscriber additions. The carrier...
CES-2016
T-Mobile Reveals Price, Availability Of Sony Z3 Phone
Bellevue, Wash. – T-Mobile followed Verizon in announcing a price and availability date for Sony’s premium waterproof Z3 smartphone, making it available Oct. 29...
CES-2016
Sony Expands Verizon Partnership With Smartphone
New York – The Sony brand will return to Verizon’s smartphone lineup after an absence of three years, joining connected Sony accessories and a...
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Carriers Adding More Affordable LTE Phones
New York – Carriers AT&T and Verizon and MVNO Consumer Cellular focused on affordable smartphones in their latest product launches. AT&T plans Oct 10...
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Verizon Mobile Hot Spot Connects More Devices For Longer
Basking Ridge, N.J. – Novatel extended the capabilities of 4G mobile hotspots with the launch of a Verizon-network model that connects to up to...
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Verizon Joining AT&T In Offering Moto X
Basking Ridge, N.J. – Verizon will join AT&T in offering Motorola’s second-generation Moto X on Sept. 26, when the carrier will offer the XLTE-ready...
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HTC Launches Windows Version Of Flagship One
Bellevue, Wash. — HTC will offer a Windows version of its flagship One smartphone for the first time with today’s launch of the HTC...
Financial
Verizon Posts Q2 Growth, But Edge Underperforms
Bedminster, N.J. – Verizon Wireless reversed its first-quarter drop in retail net subscriber additions (including postpaid and prepaid subscribers) and reversed the first-quarter shrinkage...
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