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A contract crew from Verizon installs 5G telecommunications equipment on a tower in Orem, Utah, on Dec. 3, 2019. (REUTERS/George Frey/File Photo)
Jul 16, 2026

Verizon to sell 274 stores, lay off another 500 corporate employees

Verizon said on Thursday it will sell 274 company-owned retail locations and cut about 500 corporate jobs as part of its restructuring.

A Verizon retail location is shown in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, on Feb. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
Nov 20, 2025

Verizon cutting 13,000 jobs as it works to ‘reorient’ entire company

Verizon is laying off more than 13,000 employees in mass job reductions that arrive as it says it must “reorient” its entire company.

The AT&T logo is positioned above one of its retail stores in New York in October 2016. (Mark Lennihan/AP file photo)
Oct 29, 2025

AT&T activates new sites across MD

AT&T has added new cell sites in a dozen Maryland counties in an effort to enhance the state’s 5G wireless coverage and capacity.

Tecore Networks founder/president/CEO Jay Salkini joins Sloane Brown to talk about his experiences escaping Syria’s Assad regime and coming to the U.S. alone at the age of 17, how he worked his way up in the telecommunications field to head up his own multimillion-dollar company, and how he is now reaching back to his home country to help it rebuild.
Sep 17, 2025

Jay Salkini fled Syria’s Assad regime alone at 17; today he leads Tecore Networks

Tecore Networks CEO Jay Salkini talks about his experiences escaping Syria’s Assad regime and how he worked his way up in telecommunications.

This April 1, 2015, file photo, shows a Charter Communications van in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)
May 16, 2025

Cable giants Charter and Cox, under assault by streaming services, pursue $34.5B merger

Charter Communications has offered to acquire Cox Communications, a $34.5 billion merger that would combine two of the top three cable companies in the U.S.

Generation JD Vocci
Jul 1, 2015

Phoning it in: Not the way to mediate

For some time, I have thought about sending a welcome-to-the-litigation letter to opposing counsel when they enter an appearance in a case. The letter would set out my views on the […]

Oct 13, 2014

TCS partners on local government

TeleCommunication Systems Inc., of Annapolis, a secure mobile communication technology company, announced a partnership with L.R. Kimball, a public safety and telecommunications consulting firm, to provide network security consulting and […]

Jan 21, 2014

Verizon 4Q net income reaches $5.07B

Verizon says it posted fourth-quarter net income of $5.07 billion, helped by the continued addition of more wireless devices to its network.

Nov 4, 2013

TCS tasked with Marine Corps work

TeleCommunication Systems Inc., of Annapolis, a provider of secure mobile communication technology, announced that it has received a contract from CACI International Inc., valued at up to $40.5 million, to provide the U.S. Marine Corps with engineering services for its Wireless Point to Point Link systems and commercialization effort.

Jun 19, 2013

Dish won’t submit revised bid for Sprint

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Satellite TV operator Dish Network Corp. said Tuesday it would not submit a revised bid for Sprint, leaving the path open for the wireless carrier to accept […]

Jun 11, 2013

Softbank sweetens offer for Sprint by $1.5B

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — A month after being challenged by a rival to raise its bid for Sprint Nextel, Japan’s Softbank did just that, by $1.5 billion. That brings Softbank’s […]

Nov 29, 2012

$45M award affirmed in Iraqi cell phone suit

A telecommunications company owes its former joint venture partner more than $45 million for fraudulently inducing it to invest in a cell phone network in Iraq, a Maryland appellate court has held.