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Verizon Gives Voice To Packet Switching
News Verizon Communications announced a deal with Nortel Networks on Tuesday, the latest carrier moving to add packet-switching technology to its voice network. Analysts have cautioned that traditional phone companies like Verizon could get squeezed out...
[July 4, 2002, 7:57]
Verizon Nears VoIP Conversion
News The United States' largest telephone company, Verizon Communications, has begun work on the final portion of an effort to convert its traditional, circuit-switch network into one that relies on the Internet to carry voice and data.
[January 8, 2004, 8:50]
Verizon In DSL Deal With NorthPoint
News Verizon Communications, which is entering the third day of a strike by 85,000 union members, announced an $800m deal to merge its digital subscriber line business with NorthPoint. Verizon said its second quarter digital subscriber line customer...
[August 8, 2000, 13:04]
Yahoo!, ISPs Dig In Against Labels
News and Internet service providers have sided with Verizon Communications in its legal spat with the recording industry over revealing the identity of an alleged peer-to-peer pirate. Verizon and ISPs agree that the RIAA has the right to unmask a true...
[September 11, 2002, 8:30]
FCC Urged To Act On Net Neutrality Principles
News Executives from AT&T and Verizon Communications said on Tuesday that it's important for the US Federal Communications Commission to take action against Comcast for slowing down some peer-to-peer traffic to prove legislation is not necessary when...
[June 18, 2008, 10:08]
Labels Battle To Hold Onto DMCA Win
News The recording industry on Friday fought to preserve a preliminary courtroom victory, arguing that Verizon Communications has no choice but to hand over the identity of an alleged Kazaa music pirate. Sarah Deutsch, a Verizon vice president and...
[February 10, 2003, 9:05]
Verizon Scorns Net Neutrality Fight
News Verizon Communications on Thursday dismissed concerns about Net neutrality as "hypothetical problems" and suggested new laws mandating the concept were premature. C Lincoln "Link" Hoewing, an assistant vice president at Verizon Communications, said...
[May 5, 2006, 11:40]
Net Neutrality: Meet The Winner
News As Verizon Communications' executive vice president for public affairs, policy and communications, Tauke has spent the last few months embroiled in a fiery debate over net neutrality, the concept that broadband providers must be legally required...
[June 13, 2006, 10:45]
Delivering Innovative Solutions Using Shared Services On BEA
White Papers Joe Rostock of Verizon Communications will describe how Verizon, the world's largest provider of wireline and wireless communications, is leveraging shared services on BEA's service-oriented architecture (SOA) to enable self-service for its...
[August 3, 2007, 0:00]
Kazaa Finds Friends In File-swapping Fight
News Stung by legislative proposals that could force computer companies and Internet service providers to become anti-piracy cops, Verizon Communications and an influential technology trade association are beginning to push a copyright proposal that...
[May 16, 2002, 13:12]
Vonage Gets Last-minute Lifeline
News According to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the company has signed a deal with a wholesaler of VoIP services called Voiceone, owned by a company called VoIP Inc, that could provide it with a workaround for at least two...
[April 4, 2007, 8:57]
Mobile Phones Fall Over In Emergency
News Verizon Communications, a part-owner of Verizon Wireless, said Friday that use of landlines was 300 percent above normal levels following the blackout. Only the truly persistent were able to get through after the lights went out, the largest US...
[August 18, 2003, 9:15]
Spam Blocking Traps Legitimate Email
News That means Road Runner will block emails originating from people who have their own email servers on top of an outside Internet service such as those offered by Verizon Communications, SBC Communications or Comcast.
[August 22, 2003, 9:05]
Push To Talk Heads For Wi-Fi
News One probable candidate is Verizon Communications, the landline company that's also part owner of Verizon Wireless, which sells a push-to-talk service. In the past, Verizon Communications executives have made references to expanding push-to-talk...
[August 12, 2004, 9:35]
Bad Debtors Can Still Switch Mobile Providers
News The letter by FCC Wireless Telecommunications bureau chief John B Muleta is the first time the commission has addressed this issue, according to Verizon Wireless spokesman Jeffrey Nelson. Muleta was responding concerns that Verizon Wireless raised...
[July 4, 2003, 8:15]
US Congress Votes For Net Neutrality
News USTelecom is a trade association representing Verizon Communications, BellSouth and AT&T, as well as smaller telecommunications companies. That vote is a surprise victory for Internet companies such as Amazon.com, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo that...
[May 26, 2006, 9:10]
Broadband Booms In US
News Meanwhile, Verizon Communications added 185,000 DSL lines for a total of 2.1 million, up 28 percent from the previous year. SBC and Verizon have been the most aggressive in slashing prices, with SBC offering monthly DSL service for $26.95 (£15.85...
[October 31, 2003, 14:15]
Philadelphia Pushes On With Wi-Fi Plan
News Verizon Communications supported a Pennsylvania bill barring communities from building their own network, but struck a deal with Philadelphia to allow the city's plans to go forward. I reject the idea that this network has to be built because...
[April 8, 2005, 9:35]
Lone File-swapper Takes On Recording Industry
News On 9 July, the RIAA sent her ISP, Verizon Communications, a subpoena seeking her name, address, phone number and email address. Verizon contacted the anonymous subscriber on 15 July, telling her that the group was targeting her.
[August 22, 2003, 10:25]
Sun Shines On Jxta
News Verizon Communications is one company that decided to go with Jxta instead of with peer-to-peer software from Microsoft. One instance of Jxta's use in Verizon's voice-data communications service, called Iobi, is in file sharing.
[January 29, 2004, 11:50]
