Verizon Wireless is making a big announcement in New York on Tuesday. Could the news be the long-awaited Verizon iPhone? On Friday, the company sent reporters an invitation to a press event hosted by Lowell McAdam, Verizon’s chief operating officer. The event, which will take place at Lincoln Center, is scheduled to begin at 11 …

Have you ever noticed that your old flip phone held its charge for days, even weeks sometimes, but a half-hour spent surfing the Web or watching a video on your new smartphone and the battery is dead? You aren’t alone. As cell phones get more sophisticated, all those bells and whistles come at the cost of heavy power consumption. Sure, …

The Federal Communications Commission adopted this week new rules intended to protect consumers from nefarious broadband providers who in the future may monkey with rivals’ network traffic to boost usage of their own services. But what do these so-called Net neutrality rules mean for consumers? In this week’s Ask Maggie column, I try to answer a reader’s question about what …

The Federal Communications Commission is a step closer to approving the $37 billion joint venture between Comcast and General Electric’s NBC Universal. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski gave his blessing today to the new joint venture, which was announced a year ago. He circulated an order among the four other FCC commissioners stating that he believes the venture, which will be …

Comcast today said its proposed deal to acquire control of General Electric’s NBC Universal won’t get regulatory approval by the end of the year, as the company had hoped. The cable giant issued a statement saying that even though the Federal Communications Commission and Department of Justice have made “substantial progress toward approval,” it simply doesn’t have enough time this …

AT&T took another step toward filling out its 4G wireless broadband strategy with the announcement yesterday that it plans to spend $1.9 billion to buy wireless spectrum from chipmaker Qualcomm. The new spectrum will be used to help build the carrier’s next generation LTE network. This is the same technology that Verizon Wireless is using to build its 4G network. …

The Federal Communications Commission today officially adopted controversial Net neutrality rules, but the fight is far from over as the FCC’s authority to create and enforce these rules may still be in question. With the support of the Democratic FCC chairman, Julius Genachowski, and two other Democratic commissioners, Michael Copps and Mignon Clyburn, the agency passed the rules in a …

The Federal Communications Commission is set to vote on official Net neutrality rules tomorrow, which the agency claims will provide consumers, service providers, device makers, and application developers clear rules of the road for the Internet. With the support of all three Democrats on the FCC, the regulation is set to pass. And the vote will mark the next step …

The public spat between Level 3 Communications and Comcast continues, as Level 3 now urges federal regulators to impose conditions on Comcast’s merger with NBC Universal. On Thursday evening, Level 3 sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission and U.S. Department of Justice, asking the agencies to impose conditions on Comcast’s impending merger that would require Comcast to allow …

Disgruntled AT&T iPhone subscribers may be waiting to jump ship once AT&T’s exclusivity on the iPhone ends, but will Verizon Wireless’ network be any better? And what about the AT&T iPhone users that stick with the carrier if everyone else leaves–would a mass exodus be good news for them? In this week’s Ask Maggie, I offer my predictions and advice …