Source: Olivier Knox / Yahoo! News The National Security Agency (NSA) has been collecting telephone records of millions of Verizon customers —right down to local call data—under a top-secret court order issued in April, Britain’s The Guardian newspaper reported late Wednesday. UPDATE: The Administration responds, defending a “critical tool” against terrorism and underlining that the government is not listening [...]
Source: AP / CBS News NEW YORK – Verizon Wireless (VZ), the nation’s largest cellphone company, is dropping nearly all of its phone plans in favor of pricing schemes that allow consumers to share data usage among up to ten phones and other devices. The new plans will let individuals add non-phone devices like tablets [...]
Source: David Goldman / CNN Money NEW YORK - Verizon Wireless is planning this summer to begin forcing smartphone customers with unlimited data plans to switch to tiered plans when they upgrade, the company’s chief financial officer told Wall Street analysts on Wednesday. At the JP Morgan Technology, Media and Telecom conference in Boston, Verizon CFO Fran [...]
Source: Brett Molina / USA Today Verizon Wireless is backing off plans to charge customers for one-time payments made online or by phone with their credit cards. In a statement released Friday, the wireless carrier cited customer feedback as the reason for cancelling the fee. “Based on their input, we believe the best path forward [...]
Source: Ian Paul / PC World Verizon customers are in an uproar after discovering that the carrier will start charging a $2 “convenience” fee to process one-time credit and debit card bill payments made by phone and online. The new fee goes into effect Jan. 15, and will only be charged to people making one-time payments directly [...]
