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Verizon on hiring track in Tampa, adding 100 FiOS customer reps

By Sean Buckley Verizon (NYSE: VZ) is staffing its national customer-retention center in Tampa with 100 new sales representatives to support various sales and customer support functions mainly for its wireline FiOS Internet and FiOS TV services. New staff members … Continue reading

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Verizon plans sweeping wireless revamp

By Bloomberg News Verizon Wireless is planning a sweeping upgrade of its network this year after surging congestion and deteriorating speed allowed AT&T Inc. to close the gap on service quality. Following years of Verizon dominating the industry in speed … Continue reading

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Why AT&T And Verizon May Start Charging You More Fees

By Timothy Stenovec Don’t be surprised if you start seeing more and more fees on your wireless bill. That’s one of the takeaways from a new report of the U.S. mobile market, according to Tero Kuittinen, a mobile analyst and vice … Continue reading

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Want to Make Anonymous Phone Calls? Keep It Simple

  By Fahmida Rashid   If the revelations that Verizon (and perhaps other telcomms) is handing over customer call records to the federal government has you scrambling for your tinfoil hat, there is a simple way to make sure those … Continue reading

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Report: VZW, T-MO Not Part of NSA Surveillance Program

  By Andrew Berg   Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile may not have been required to particpate in the NSAs phone surveillance program.Citing people familiar with the matter, the Wall Street Journal today reported that the NSA may have exempted T-Mobile … Continue reading

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Don’t Want to Be Spied On? Think About Encryption

By Fahmida Y. Rashid The twin disclosures last week about the National Security Agency’s extensive surveillance program accomplished something that no amount of SecurityWatch posts could ever have accomplished: It got regular Internet users talking about encryption. Right after the … Continue reading

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AT&T, Sprint also part of NSA’s phone data collection probe

By Sean Buckley The National Security Agency’s phone and data collection effort targeting Verizon (NYSE: VZ) also included AT&T (NYSE: T) and Sprint (NYSE: S), according to various reports. While Verizon was initially the only provider named by The Guardian … Continue reading

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Rumor Mill: Apple code limits iPhone data speeds on Verizon, AT&T and Sprint

By Phil Goldstein Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) has  inserted code into its iOS operating system that limits the maximum data speeds  iPhone and iPad customers can achieve on the networks of Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZ),  AT&T Mobility (NYSE:T)  and Sprint Nextel (NYSE:S), according to an  iOS developer. … Continue reading

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NSA Phone Record Collection ‘Beyond Orwellian,’ ACLU Says

By Ryan J. Reilly and Matt Sledge The Obama administration’s seizure of millions of phone Verizon phone records under a secret court order is “alarming” and “beyond Orwellian,” an American Civil Liberties Union official said Wednesday. The Guardian’s Glenn Greenwald … Continue reading

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U.S. Is Secretly Collecting Records of Verizon Calls

By Charlie Savage and Edward Wyatt The Obama administration is secretly carrying out a domestic surveillance program under which it is collecting business communications records involving Americans under a hotly debated section of the Patriot Act, according to a highly … Continue reading

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