Verizon preparing to phase out six local calling plans
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Verizon Communications Inc. is moving to phase out a half-dozen of its local calling plans in Eastern Massachusetts later this month, although current customers will be able to continue subscribing to plans like Bay State East and Metropolitan.
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Verizon recently announced plans to roll out its new wireless BroadbandAccess service in 14 American cities, with more to follow.
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Verizon, the largest US phone company, will hire as many as 5,000 workers from Massachusetts to Virginia to build a fiber-optic network to 3 million homes by the end of next year.
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WASHINGTON Aug. 20, 2004 - Federal regulators Friday imposed a six-month freeze on the rates regional phone companies may charge their competitors to use networks to provide local service.
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New plans offering unlimited talk will change the wireless landscape.
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Nextel Communications Inc. agreed yesterday to a plan by federal regulators aimed at ending the interference from Nextel cellphones that disrupts public safety communication systems in hundreds of communities.
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Motorola plans to axe 1,000 workers across a number of business units, hoping to reduce costs as it refocuses on its wireless business.
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Verizon Communications, the nation&#39;s largest regional phone company, announced plans yesterday to start introducing fiber-optic connections for residential phone and data services in six Eastern states.
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Three of the nation's dominant local telephone companies said on Thursday that they had seen a sharp drop-off in new residential lines leased to competitors since AT&T Corp.  announced a retreat from residential service in July due to changing federal rules.
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Even EarthLink is scaling back deployments, some cities and regional networks are pushing forward with plans to build citywide Wi-Fi networks.
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Company also will slash value of its assets by $11.4 billion. Moves are prompted by plan to retreat from traditional consumer telephone business.
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CHICAGO - Delta Air Lines (DAL) said Wednesday it plans to eliminate between 6,000 and 6,900 jobs during the next 18 months, implement a 10% across-the-board pay reduction and reduce employee benefits.
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Verizon Wireless and Sprint (NYSE: FON) are giving their customers a break, cutting their fees for number portability, which the carriers have charged all customers to meet the costs of enabling wireless users to keep their phone numbers when they switch service providers.
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Verizon and Sprint have decided to eliminate or reduce a 40-cent-per-line monthly charge imposed to allow customers to transfer their phone numbers to new carriers.-The Washington Post
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Verizon Wireless set off a stampede to unlimited voice plans among U.S. mobile operators on Tuesday.After the carrier said it would let subscribers talk for as long as they want within the U.S. for $99.99 per month, rivals AT&amp;T and T-Mobile USA followed suit. Sprint Nextel, which offers 2,000 anytime minutes per month for $99.99, did not.Verizon&#39;s unlimited individual plan, as well as a shared family plan starting at $199.98, is available now.T-Mobile&#39;s plan, becoming available Thursday, will allow unlimited voice as well as messaging. That carrier, which targets youth as a key demographic, has been offering several plans for big talkers, including an Individual Ultra plan with 2,500 minutes for $99.99 and Individual Supra with 5,000 minutes for $129.99. AT&amp;T likewise had offered such plans, including a 6,000-minute service for $199.99.The major U.S. carriers haven&#39;t traditionally offered unlimited minutes. The rush to match Verizon&#39;s plan indicated the level of competition in the mobile market, where carriers are now pushing e-mail, Web access, and other data services as the price of voice minutes has fallen.But the new plans will probably appeal to only a small segment of the market, analysts said. Realtors and small-business owners who spend a lot of time on the road might find it useful, they said. Most carriers already offer free calls on nights and weekends and plans that include free calling to frequent contacts or people on the same network. Mobile data services such as Verizon&#39;s BroadbandAccess 3G (third-generation) will cost extra. And the $99.99 unlimited products are separate from family plans with shared minutes, which cost more.Also Tuesday, Verizon revamped its data offerings to reach different types of customers. A $39.99 plan will allow for 50MB of data traffic per month, and a $59.99 offering will cover 5GB. The new data plans will become available March 2.Sprint offers unlimited data on its EV-DO (Evolution-Data Optimized) network, which is similar to Verizon&#39;s, for $59.99 per month. There are some uses that aren&#39;t allowed, including continuous heavy data traffic and Web hosting. AT&amp;T places a 5GB limit only on plans for mobile data cards to be used in notebook PCs, not on phone plans. Verizon and some other carriers have been criticized in the past for advertising unlimited data while actually cutting off users who went over a certain limit.
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VoIP service will be available using traditional handsets.
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The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has adopted new rules requiring wireless telephone providers to move toward testing location-based emergency dialing service at the local level.