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AT&T's Earnings Call to Shed Light on Cord Cutting, Status of Time Warner Deal [telecom]
The telecom has already warned about declining video subscribers and recently pushed out the termination date for the Time Warner deal. Investors will also listen for details about AT&T's video...
 
How You Swipe and Hold Your Phone May Be a Critical Clue to Stop Fraudsters [telecom]
How You Swipe and Hold Your Phone May Be a Critical Clue to Stop Fraudsters People are creatures of habit. This applies to daily routines, but also to small details like how they use their phones. The...
 
Hispanic group warns Verizon of possible protest over Univision blackout [telecom]
by Mike Snider The National Hispanic Media Coalition is threatening to rally Latino leaders against Verizon for its removal of Univision from the Verizon Fios service earlier this week. Verizon's...
 
I went to buy a Pixel 2. Verizon tried to sell me a Galaxy S8 [telecom]
Commentary: Verizon is Google's exclusive partner for the Pixel 2 phone. But I wouldn't have known that after a chat with a Verizon salesman. You might watch a launch event and decide you must have...
 
Why Verizon And China Could Be Battling Over 5G Mobile Standard [telecom]
By Reinhardt Krause Verizon Communications' (VZ) goal of leading the U.S. in rolling out 5G wireless services will pressure China as global standards are finalized, says a Jefferies report. Verizon...
 
Competition, and Debt, Could Spell Trouble for Verizon [telecom]
By Jennifer Saba Verizon's perch as the No. 1 carrier in the United States looks secure. The $200 billion telecom firm reported a rise in wireless subscribers on Thursday. But the gap is narrowing....
 
Verizon's Streaming TV Service Reportedly Delayed Until 2018 [telecom]
by Chaim Gartenberg Verizon has supposedly had its own over-the-top TV service in the works for a while now. Bloomberg first reported that it was supposed to launch in the summer back in March, and...
 
Univision Amps Up Criticism Of Verizon In Carriage Dispute [telecom]
Univision Amps Up Criticism Of Verizon In Carriage Dispute, Cites Support From Congress & Hispanic Media Group by Dade Hayes Univision is ratcheting up its criticism of Verizon for deciding to...
 
Verizon Paying $17 Million In FCC Fraud Case [telecom]
Verizon Paying $17 Million In FCC Fraud Case, But Could Have Been Docked Much More Telecom giant should have paid $50 million plus, one commissioner says. By Aaron Pressman The U.S. Federal...
 
Verizon's Long-Shot Bet To Disrupt Google And Facebook [telecom]
Facebook And Google dominate digital advertising, but Verizon wants to change that. Like many telcos, Verizon desperately wants to own more of the content that flows through its wired and wireless...
 
Apple enabling emergency AT&T LTE in Puerto Rico using Google balloons [telecom]
Apple enabling emergency AT&T LTE in Puerto Rico using Google's Project Loon balloons Apple is working with AT&T and Google parent-company Alphabet to enable emergency LTE in Puerto Rico after the...
 
CenturyLink: Phone service restored in southeast Cedar Rapids, Iowa [telecom]
Customers reported the outage started last Tuesday; officials say contractor cut lines By Matthew Patane CenturyLink has restored landline phone service for customers in the southeast part of Cedar...
 
Google Play apps with as many as 2.6m downloads found to contain malware [telecom]
Google Play apps with as many as 2.6m downloads added devices [they were running on] to botnet Google has booted eight Android apps from its Play marketplace, even though the apps have been downloaded...
 
Smartphones Are Killing Americans, But Nobody's Counting [telecom]
Smartphones Are Killing Americans, But Nobody's Counting By Kyle Stock, Lance Lambert, and David Ingold Amid a historic spike in U.S. traffic fatalities, federal data on the danger of distracted...
 
Millions of high-security crypto keys crippled by newly discovered flaw [telecom]
Millions of high-security crypto keys crippled by newly discovered flaw Factorization weakness lets attackers impersonate key holders and decrypt their data. A crippling flaw in a widely used code...