reader comments 2 with 2 posters participating Share this story This is the BrightDrop EV410, a new electric delivery commercial vehicle from General Motors. BrightDrop General Motors employee Anshul Shah attaches trim pieces onto the BrightDrop EV600, the company’s first all-electric light commercial vehicle purpose-built for the delivery of goods and services Friday, September 24,… Read More »
Enlarge / LaPlace, Louisiana: Jacqueline Smith waits with her mother Lucille Matthew for transportation after they were rescued from their flooded neighborhood in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida on August 30, 2021. Getty Images | Scott Olson reader comments 39 with 29 posters participating Share this story AT&T today said that only 60 percent of… Read More »
Enlarge / Pretty Good Phone Privacy wants to minimize how much your wireless provider knows about your location. Noam Galai | Getty Images reader comments 8 with 8 posters participating Share this story Location data sharing from wireless carriers has been a major privacy issue in recent years. Marketers, salespeople, and even bounty hunters were… Read More »
Enlarge / Yahoo headquarters in Sunnyvale, California, on Wednesday, April 21, 2021. Getty Images | Bloomberg reader comments 76 with 58 posters participating Share this story Verizon announced on Monday that it is selling Yahoo and AOL for $5 billion to private-equity firm Apollo Global Management. Verizon made the deal official just a few days after news… Read More »
Enlarge / Yahoo logo at the 2014 International CES conference in Las Vegas. Getty Images | Ethan Miller reader comments 108 with 93 posters participating Share this story Verizon is reportedly ready to give up on Yahoo and AOL after spending a combined $9 billion on the once-dominant Internet brands that fell from prominence years… Read More »
Enlarge / A Verizon booth at Mobile World Congress Americas in Los Angeles in September 2018. reader comments 43 with 36 posters participating Share this story US mobile customers are almost never able to connect to millimeter-wave networks even though the cellular industry and Verizon in particular have spent years hyping the fastest form of… Read More »
Enlarge / A Verizon booth at Mobile World Congress Americas in Los Angeles in September 2018. reader comments 70 with 45 posters participating Share this story Verizon has spent years hyping 5G despite it bringing just a minor speed upgrade outside the limited areas where millimeter-wave spectrum has been deployed, but the carrier’s support team… Read More »
reader comments 17 with 16 posters participating Share this story Verizon and AT&T dominated the US government’s latest spectrum auction, spending a combined $68.9 billion on licenses in the upper 3GHz band. Verizon’s winning bids totaled $45.45 billion, while AT&T’s came in at $23.41 billion. T-Mobile was third with $9.34 billion as the three biggest… Read More »
Enlarge / A Verizon FiOS truck in Manhattan on September 15, 2017. reader comments 26 with 24 posters participating Share this story Verizon is struggling to fix a glitch that has been leaking customers’ addresses, phone numbers, account numbers, and other personal information through a chat system that helps prospective subscribers figure out if Fios… Read More »
Enlarge / A firefighter battling the Mendocino Complex fire on August 7, 2018 near Lodoga, California. reader comments 51 with 31 posters participating Share this story Verizon’s 2018 controversy over its throttling of a fire department’s “unlimited” data plan during a wildfire didn’t stop the carrier from rolling out numerous ads claiming that Verizon service… Read More »