WASHINGTON — Federal regulators have issued a sharply critical report on phone problems that followed a severe wind storm in the Washington-metro area last year. The Federal Communications Commission says even now, it remains concerned about the maintenance and repair ...

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NEW YORK — Phone company Verizon Communications Inc. said Monday it has transferred $7.5 billion in pension obligations to Prudential Insurance after a retiree association failed to persuade a court to stop the move. Members of the Association of BellTel ...

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WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court has rejected a Verizon challenge to a Federal Communications Commission rule aimed at increasing competition in wireless broadband service. The three-judge panel ruled Tuesday that the FCC had the legal authority to issue the ...

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NEW YORK — Verizon Wireless, the largest cellphone carrier in the U.S., says it will sell a Nokia phone for the first time in years, lending support to the embattled Finnish company’s turnaround effort. Verizon says it will sell the ...

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NEW YORK — Verizon’s Share Everything plan looks like it’s good for the company’s shares, too. The parent of the nations’ largest cellphone company on Thursday reported a blow-out number of new devices on its network, boosted by the revolutionary ...

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NEW YORK — Apple’s stock reached $700 for the first time on Tuesday, the day after it announced that orders for its iPhone 5 topped 2 million in the first 24 hours. The stock traded as high as $701.44 in ...

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NEW YORK — Unlimited wireless data is back. After sliding off the menu of cellphone plans, data plans with no caps are making a comeback at smaller wireless companies trying to compete with AT&T and Verizon. T-Mobile USA, the nation’s ...

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ELLICOTT CITY — Verizon Communications Inc. says all services disrupted by a train derailment near Baltimore have been restored. The New York-based company said Wednesday that all services were operating normally by 9 p.m. Tuesday. Land-line services to some customers ...

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ELLICOTT CITY — Investigators were checking videos, track conditions and maintenance records Wednesday to find the cause of a deadly train derailment in Maryland and figure out if two young women sitting on a railroad bridge over the town’s main ...

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