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Earnings: Verizon Communications Profits Climb 9.8 Percent On Wireless Growth - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Mon 28 Apr 2008 06:18 AM PST

Verizon (NYSE: VZ) has reported Q1 revenue of $23.8 billion, up 5.5 percent. Net income increased to $1.64 billion from $1.5 billion. Revenues at the company’s wireless business rose to…

Wireless Spectrum Winners Are Revealed; Google Bids But Verizon Wins - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 20 Mar 2008 12:19 PM PST

The FCC finally unveiled the winners of the federal spectrum auction that closed earlier this week and raised a record-breaking $19.6 billion. The FCC said Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) was…

Earnings: Verizon Revs Up 5.6 Percent; FiOS TV Subs Top 1 Million - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 28 Jan 2008 09:04 AM PST

Verizon (NYSE: VZ) has reported Q4 revenue of $23.8 billion, up 5.6 percent from last year’s $22.6 billion. Net income increased 3.8 percent to $1.078 billion. The wireless business led…

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Citi Media: Dennis Strigl, President & COO, Verizon Communications: Limits On Faster FiOS Rollout - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 10 Jan 2008 09:57 AM PST

After starting with a fairly boilerplate introduction to Verizon (NYSE: VZ) at Citi’s 18th Annual Global Entertainment, Media & Telecommunications Conference, COO and President Dennis Strigl was asked right off…

The Players In The 700 MHz Auction - 1 Comment
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 05 Dec 2007 06:39 AM PST

It will be a while before the list of official bidders in the 700 MHz spectrum auction in the US are announced, but there are some statements out already. What…

Busy Week In NYC: UBS 35th Annual Global Media&Communications Conference - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Sun 02 Dec 2007 10:03 PM PST

For the first time in four years, I won’t be spending a large chunk of early December in NYC hotel meetings rooms as media and tech execs make their cases…

Verizon Wireless Opening Its Network: All Handsets And Apps - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 27 Nov 2007 08:42 AM PST

Verizon (NYSE: VZ) Wireless has announced that its handsets will, for the first time, be opened up for third party applications: In early 2008, the company will publish the technical…

Google Rumor Mill Cranks Up: Verizon In Talks, France Telecom Not - 2 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 30 Oct 2007 06:48 PM PST

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) seems to have taken a leaf from Apple’s (NSDQ: AAPL) book: Say nothing officially, but ensure steady leaks to maintain interest. The latest rumor is that Google…

Verizon’s FiOS a Growing Threat to Cable; AT&T Goes to Washington? - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 24 Oct 2007 08:12 AM PST

Once dismissed, Verizon (NYSE: VZ) is forcing people to take its TV initiatives seriously. The company announced yesterday that its IPTV service FiOS TV had signed up 500,000 subscribers (release),…

Earnings: Verizon’s Q2 Income Rises 4.5 Percent; Revs Up 6.3 Percent - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 30 Jul 2007 05:03 AM PST

Gains in wireless subscribers helped boost Verizon (NYSE:VZ) Q2 profits 4.5 percent to $1.7 billion, or 58 cents a share, from $1.6 billion, or 55 cents, last year. Revenues for…

Earnings: Verizon Adds 141,000 FiOS TV Customers - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Mon 30 Apr 2007 05:16 AM PST

Verizon (NYSE:VZ) has reported its first quarter earnings for the three months ending March 31st. Revenue for the group increased 6.4 percent year-on-year to $22.6 billion, operating income increased 19.6…

Mobile And TV Meshing More Often: TWC-Sprint; AT&T Homezone; Verizon-TiVo - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 06 Mar 2007 10:00 PM PST

Mobile handsets can be like those transformer toys when it comes to TV—handheld TV set, remote control, remote programmer, programming guide, sometimes all in one. One approach by Time Warner…

Verizon, Others Pull Ads From Coulter Site, Citing Offensive Remarks; Shows Ad Network Vulnerability - 2 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 06 Mar 2007 02:21 PM PST

Ann Coulter’s anti-gay slur directed at Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards illustrates why advertisers and their agencies tend to remain skittish when it comes to advertising on political pundits’ websites.…

First Look: Verizon V Cast Mobile TV AKA Qualcomm MediaFlo - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Fri 02 Mar 2007 12:48 AM PST

As luck would have it, I happen to be in one of the markets where Verizon V Cast Mobile TV is live. I actually contacted Verizon PR earlier this week,…

Verizon, AT&T U-verse Look Local For Programming - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 11 Jan 2007 12:21 PM PST

Verizon and AT&T are shoring up their programming experiments to meet local interests. Verizon FiOS subscribers in the Washington, DC area will have an outlet for viewing user-generated videos. The…

@ CES: V Cast TV Launching Q1; Composite Channels, Some Simulcast; FiOS Next Gen - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Sun 07 Jan 2007 02:12 PM PST

It’s a clear, bright, chilly Las Vegas afternoon and a couple of hundred people are sitting in a blacked-out pseudo TV studio watching Verizon roll out the next phase of…

FCC Votes 3-2 To Ease Video Franchise Apps By Telcos - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 20 Dec 2006 02:37 PM PST

AT&T, Verizon and other entities with access to city-owned conduits—the electric company, perhaps? —get a 90-day shot clock courtesy of the FCC. Chairman Kevin Martin finally got something he wanted…