NEW YORK — Phone company Verizon Communications Inc. is offering buyouts to 1,700 workers, mainly call-center employees and technicians, as it continues to shrink its wireline business. The offer applies to less than 1 percent of Verizon’s overall workforce of ...

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NEW ORLEANS — The head of AT&T’s wireless business says he’s looking to introduce plans that share a data allowance among family members, similar to the way it sells family calling plans. AT&T’s Ralph de la Vega says the company ...

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Last week, my cell phone started ringing incessantly. By “incessantly,” I mean every two seconds. The numbers that came through were not 10-digit numbers, but sometimes 15-to-20 digits. When I answered, the call disconnected. I called Verizon and was told there ...

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When Laura Flamm moved to Baltimore from Ohio two years ago, she wanted to swap her 614 cell phone number for a 410 number. But the 23-year-old hasn’t made the switch, and with Saturday’s launch of the 667 area code, ...

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NEW YORK — AT&T is caving to complaints that it’s placing unreasonable limits on the “unlimited data” plans it offers smartphone subscribers. The cellphone company says that from now on, it will only slow down service for its “unlimited data” ...

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SIMI VALLEY, Calif. — When AT&T started slowing the data service for his iPhone, Matt Spaccarelli, an unemployed truck driver and student, took the country’s largest telecommunications company to small-claims court. His award: $850. Pro-tem Judge Russell Nadel found in ...

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LONDON — Witnesses continued to chip away at News International’s claims that it didn’t know phone hacking was widespread at its News of the World tabloid, with a former legal advisor for the company testifying Tuesday that he knew years ...

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NEW YORK — Verizon Wireless is blocking Google’s new flagship phone from supporting Google’s attempt to make the smartphone the credit card of the future. In blocking the Google Wallet software from running on the new Samsung Galaxy Nexus, Verizon ...

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Apologies in advance for the ALL CAPS to come, but I was forwarded a press release that makes me want to SCREAM. Seems there is a company based in Oklahoma that has created GripeAtMe.com, which is pretty much what it ...

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NEW YORK — BlackBerry services buzzed back to life across the world Thursday, after a three-day outage that interrupted email messages and Internet services for millions of customers. Research In Motion Ltd., the maker of the phones, said the system ...

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