Wireless Federation (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
The Motorola Adventure V750, a rugged Push to Talk phone designed for the most extreme conditions is being offered by Verizon Wireless and will be available through business sales channels. The V750 offers a durable and reliable solution for Verizon Wireless Push to Talk customers and leverages the high-speeds of the Verizon Wireless Evolution-Data Optimized (EV-DO) Revision [...]...
Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Verizon Wireless is offering to divest airwaves in 85 largely rural markets as part of talks with the Justice Department over a pending merger with Alltel.
Phones Review (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
Now here’s a snippet of news that may interest all you Palm OS Verizon customers out there in mobile phone land. Verizon has informed Palm Infocenter that they are to officially decommission the Palm OS based smartphone Treo 755p. Verizon will now favour the Palm Centro, which they say is a smaller, friendlier, more customer orientated [...]
Wireless Federation (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
Verizon Wireless is planning to divest airwaves in 85 markets as a pending merger with Alltel. The separations would appease regulators’ antitrust concerns over the proposed merger, which would create the nation’s largest cellphone company. In comments filed to the Federal Communications Commission, Verizon Wireless said it is committed to divesting overlapping properties with Alltel...
broadbandreports.com (Free subscription) | 21 hours ago
65,000 East Coast Verizon employees, 15,000 of whom live and work in the New York City area, have voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike if Verizon and labor unions can't reach an agreement by the August 2 expiration of their current deal. According to Crain's New York , 91% of workers voted to authorize a strike if negotiations fail. "That s pretty much standard procedure," says...
Engadget Mobile (Free subscription) | yesterday
Filed under: Handsets , Palm , Verizon Wireless , Palm OS Here's an interesting factoid to chew on: the cycle between the first rumors that the Palm 755p was coming to Verizon and its launch was longer than the window of time between launch and sunset. Just think about that for a second. Seriously. Verizon has reported to Palm Infocenter that it's officially decommissioning the...
The Consumerist (Free subscription) | yesterday
908-717-3115 is the number for the NJ Verizon Escalation Hotline. This is the number they're giving out to Verizon customers in NJ who signed up for FiOs and are still waiting for their free LCD TVs.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Reuters (Free subscription) | yesterday
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Verizon Wireless, the No. 2 U.S. mobile service, has offered to divest assets in 85 cell phone markets in a bid to gain regulatory approval for its proposed $28.1 billion purchase of smaller rival Alltel.
Mobilewhack (Free subscription) | yesterday
Verizon has just announced the Motorola Adventure V750. Not the most complicated smartphone, the V750 is still a very awaited handset. It has support for EVDO Rev. A and the Push to Talk service . Verizon seems to grow their mid-range phone line with support for EVDO Rev. A as they have launched the LG Dare earlier. The V750 is a clamshell. Besides what we have mentioned so far, it offers...
broadbandreports.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Verizon today announced that the telco will be offering two new home gateways for FiOS customers starting in the third quarter of this year. According to the telco, the new broadband routers, built to custom Verizon specifications by Actiontec and Westell, will boost in-home networking speeds over coaxial from 75 Mbps to 175Mbps (using the MOCA 1.1 standard). Verizon uses MOCA...
Phones Review (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
According to RCS Wireless, Verizon Wireless, in order to meet Department of Justice approval, has agreed to divest some of its assets with the hopes the concessions will allow their intended purchase of mobile phone provider Alltel to progress. Therefore, Verizon Wireless has agreed to sell off 85 markets over eighteen states, which will mostly be [...]
Ring Nokia (Free subscription) | 20 hours ago
With the more popular Palm Centro making more significant headway in Verizon's Palm OS-powered smartphone portfolio, the No. 2 US wireless carrier has announced that the recently launched Palm Treo 755p has met its end-of-life. The Palm Treo 755p was only launched on Verizon a few months back, and it seems that Verizon is already [...]
PalmAddicts (Free subscription) | yesterday
[From Hans] You can now score the phone from Verizon for $100 with a 2-year contract. More deets. - [As I am mobile at the moment, this blog was written and posted straight from my Palm Centro]
iTech News Net (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Verizon Wireless launches the Motorola Adventure V750 clamshell style mobile phone. The V750 supports EVDO Rev. A data and Push to Talk. It features a 2-inch QVGA LCD display, a 2 Megapixel camera that can record video clips, support for GPS navigation, Bluetooth and a microSDHC memory card. The Adventure V750 has dedicated music buttons on [...]
Phone Scoop (Free subscription) | yesterday
In order to meet Department of Justice approval, Verizon Wireless agreed to divest some assets with the hope that the concessions will allow its intended purchase of rural cellular provider Alltel to move forward. Verizon agreed to sell off ... (follow link to read)
