Verizon Wireless News

As the holiday shopping season starts to gear up, Verizon has launched two new mid-range handsets from Motorola. The VU30... Read more >>

It would be a non-news news story to say that Verizon is on track to spend $28.1 billion to acquire Alltel by the end of the year if it weren't for a tanking economy and a less-than-sureshot... Read more >>

As the credit crisis deepens and the rescue of the financial sector stalls in Congress, major U.S. carriers are beginning to worry about the effects of a prolonged freeze on credit to their... Read more >>

Motorola is reportedly betting that Google's Android operating system is going to be a money-maker. The firm has assembled a large team to work on developing handsets that will run on the OS,... Read more >>

FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said yesterday that the agency will try to finish its review of Verizon's pending acquisition of Alltel as well as Sprint Nextel's joint venture with Clearwire by year-end.... Read more >>

A couple of times a year, I do some wireless mystery shopping. I walk into several wireless stores--a mix of carrier-owned (Verizon, AT&T), independent third party (Wireless Toys), and big box... Read more >>

Ahead of Verizon Wireless' launch of Research In Motion's BlackBerry Storm, AT&T Mobility is readying a plan to beat back potential sales of the device as the holiday shopping season approaches,... Read more >>

Two new class-action anti-trust lawsuits were levelled against U.S. wireless carriers yesterday in federal courts in Ohio and Kansas, as legal jeopardy facing AT&T Mobility, Verizon Wireless,... Read more >>

Starting September 21, Verizon Wireless will be joining its rival T-Mobile USA in offering contract-free services, according to an unnamed insider source in a report on the blog Boy Genius Report.... Read more >>

Open networks were a hot topic at the CTIA Wireless I.T. & Entertainment conference in San Francisco earlier this month. At the center of the open access debate is Verizon Wireless' Vice... Read more >>