Thousands of Verizon landline workers took to picket lines Monday from Massachusetts to Baltimore to Virginia, fighting management demands for contract givebacks and disputing that their work is unprofitable. Verizon Communication Inc. countered that its 45,000 unionized workers in the ...

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NEW YORK — AT&T Inc. saw a rebound in the number of new contract subscribers in the second quarter, showing resilience in the face of competition from Verizon’s iPhone. The country’s largest telecommunications company said Thursday that it added a ...

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WASHINGTON — LightSquared, a Virginia-based company that plans to build a nationwide wireless broadband network, is proposing to adapt its network so as not to interfere with GPS systems. The company plans to move some of its operations to a ...

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AT&T says it wants to buy T-Mobile USA to acquire more airwaves to support the growing use of data-hungry devices such as the iPhone. But if that’s the case, the T-Mobile deal isn’t much of a solution. Having the right ...

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MARQUETTE  — President Barack Obama promoted plans Thursday to bring high-speed wireless to nearly all American households, pushing his domestic agenda in a small, snowy city in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula on a day of dramatic developments in Egypt. Obama kept ...

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NEW YORK — Verizon Communications Inc. on Tuesday said it attracted more than half a million smart-phone subscribers in the latest quarter, showing strength even before it starts selling the iPhone in February. Verizon Wireless added 872,000 subscribers on contract-based ...

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NEW YORK — Verizon Wireless made the long-awaited announcement Tuesday that it will start selling a version of the iPhone 4 on Feb. 10, giving U.S. iPhone buyers a choice of carriers for the first time. Since its 2007 debut, ...

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LAS VEGAS — The first gadgets with built-in access to Verizon Wireless’ new, high-speed wireless data network are a smart phone and a tablet from Motorola Mobility Inc., both designed to take advantage of the network’s speed for videoconferencing. More ...

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Fans in a dozen NFL cities are using a new handheld device at games that allows them to see replays from angles not available on television, follow their fantasy lineups in real time, check out other games via NFL Red ...

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