Tag Archives: verizon-wireless

Among Thanksgiving day traditions, watching the Macy’s New York parade live on TV ranks right up there with eating turkey, arguing with family and falling asleep early after three consecutive football games. Now, for the first time in the 64 years the parade has been broadcast live, you can watch it without turning on your …

AOL is expected to announce Thursday that it will lay off 500 people, or 5 percent of its staff, as it shifts focus. “The layoffs are related to a 2017 strategy where we will add to our business,” AOL CEO Tim Armstrong said in an interview with Recode. “These are super targeted by area and we will be re-growing especially …

Shoppers looking for a prepaid phone will have two more options to choose from on Verizon’s network. Starting November 13, new 5 GB and 10 GB data plans join the carrier’s 3GB and 6GB plans. 5GB plan: $50 a month gets you unlimited talk and text in the U.S., carryover data when you pay on time, mobile hotspot capabilities and …

Get yourself a tablet that can do both — both Wi-Fi and 4G LTE, that is. If you take your tablet outside the comfort of your own Wi-Fi network, you know what it’s like to be at the mercy of whatever public Wi-Fi is available. Subscribing for data service on your phone is a no-brainer, but having the option on …

Exclusive, exschmoosive. T-Mobile really wants you to know that Verizon’s “exclusive” to sell the red-hot Google Pixel phone isn’t an exclusive at all. “Don’t let the ‘exclusive’ advertisements fool you, the Pixel phone is tested and proven to be fantastic on our lightning fast network, and we want to help you get the best of both worlds!” said T-Mobile CEO …

There’s a new cop on the internet privacy beat. In a 3-2 vote Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission passed new rules that for the first time give the agency the authority to police internet service providers, such as AT&T, Comcast and Verizon, that share customers’ sensitive personal information with third parties, like advertisers. The FCC’s new rules will require internet …

Verizon is treading carefully with Yahoo, but still wants to seal the deal. “The deal makes strategic sense,” said Marni Walden, the executive vice president of business innovation for Verizon and the person who pushed for the acquisition. “We won’t jump off of a cliff blindly.” She continues to believe there’s value in the Yahoo name, noting that it won’t …

In the San Francisco Bay Area, home to countless tech titans, there’s precious little competition for home internet access. The choice is generally between Comcast and AT&T — assuming there’s a choice at all. There was a spark of hope for me and fellow Bay Area residents: Google Fiber, which promised to bring unheard-of speeds and meaningful competition to the …

Sprint’s turnaround is in full swing as the company added hundreds of thousands of new customers in its fiscal second quarter and marked the best customer retention in its history. The company, which released preliminary financial results last week, offered no big surprises when it made public its full financial results on Tuesday. The good news for the quarter is …

Sprint took the long way to get there, but the US carrier now has recovered from years of decline, the company’s overlord said Tuesday. Sprint reported stronger financial results Tuesday, most notably the net addition of 347,000 new customers lured by network improvements and the promise of halved phone bills compared with AT&T and Verizon, the mobile goliaths. Sprint was …