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Average number of hours that Verizon residential-telephone customers spent waiting for repairs last year. In Maryland, the state with the longest wait time, the repair lag averaged...
Cost of a proposed state-record fine in Virginia against Verizon for poor service during the first five months of 2006. The company failed to fix approximately 170,000 phone outages within 48 hr., as required...
...digital music business is one of the prime battlefields right now, with new vendors entering all the time. In the week alone leading up to Nokia's announcement, giant retailer Wal-Mart strengthened its downloading service, and MTV, Real Networks and Verizon Wireless joined music forces. They're all chasing a digital download business that the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry says grew to $2.1 billion in 2006, or 11% of all recorded music sales, as more artists embrace it. "Any band that's resistant to it is crazy," says Adam Levine, lead singer of Grammy-winning L.A. group...
...brand strength, as the artist Akon recently discovered. While performing in Trinidad, Akon was videotaped dancing suggestively with a fan who was later revealed to be only 14. The video attracted the ire of conservatives like Bill O'Reilly. In the wake of the controversy, Akon's tour sponsor, Verizon, removed all ringtones featuring his work and retracted its sponsorship. The message was clear: Hip-hop needs a new and improved product...
...cell phone companies there has been much not to love, so it's equally understandable that some people are outraged by these cancellations. First, the industry charged us coming and going - remember paying for incoming calls? Then it made promises about coverage that hardly matched reality, a shortfall that Verizon Wireless (Can you hear me now?) cleverly turned into marketing campaign. And let's not forget that there were no options if you were unhappy because you were padlocked into a two-year contract. The good news for Sprint's castoffs - no termination fee. Oh, thank...