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Verizon’s new fees on app to phone long code messages was designed to counter robotexts, not stop teachers from assigning homework. Continue reading Verizon Is Making It Harder for Teachers to Contact Students Who Don’t Have Smartphones
Google’s phone, text, and data service relies on infrastructure provided by T-Mobile and Sprint. A Motherboard investigation found both telcos selling customers’ location data that ultimately ended up in the hands of bounty hunters. Continue reading Google Demanded That T-Mobile, Sprint Not Sell Google Fi Customers’ Location Data
A small group of victims of SIM swapping hacks is trying to raise awareness, teach people about the scam, and put pressure on cell phone providers to step up their efforts against cybercriminals. Continue reading SIM Swapping Victims Who Lost Millions Are Pressuring Telcos to Protect Their Customers
T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T are selling access to their customers’ location data, and that data is ending up in the hands of bounty hunters and others not authorized to possess it, letting them track most phones in the country. Continue reading I Gave a Bounty Hunter $300. Then He Located Our Phone
Smaller companies say big carrier wireless claims of uninterrupted, nationwide coverage are a “sham.” Continue reading The FCC Is Investigating Cell Carriers’ Wireless Coverage Maps
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Verizon is conceding defeat on its crusade to turn a patchwork of dot-com-era businesses into a thriving online operation. The wireless carrier slashed the value of its AOL and Yahoo acquisitions by $… Continue reading Verizon Admits Defeat With $4.6 Billion AOL-Yahoo Writedown
Killing net neutrality in particular was supposed to spur both job growth and investment. Continue reading Verizon Trims 10,000 Employees Despite Billions in Tax Cuts and Government Favors
Verizon announced today that it will write down $4.6 billion associated with its acquisitions of AOL and Yahoo.
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Verizon today announced that 10,400 employees — about 7 percent of its worldwide workforce — are taking buyouts to leave the company. “This is part of an effort to trim the telecom giant’s workforce ahead of its push toward 5G,” reports TechCrunch. F… Continue reading Verizon Announces 10,400 Employees Will Voluntarily Leave the Company
Enabling the business outcome in a ‘Real-Time’ enterprise environment is the next challenge for global brands and government agencies in 2019. Tech companies will need to drive hard to continually exceed to their customers’ expectations during a … Continue reading 7 trends driving enterprise IT transformation in 2019