The United States' largest telephone company, Verizon Communications, has begun work on the final portion of an effort to convert its traditional, circuit-switch network into one that relies on the ...

According to a Verizon spokesperson, Verizon is alerting VoiceWing customers via e-mail, letters and outbound calls that the service will be discontinued. Customers have the option to port their phone ...

Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering cellphone services, broadband, citywide Wi-Fi, the Net neutrality debate and the consolidation of the phone companies. The bad news ...

Verizon has announced a VoIP-based service for its residential FiOS customers: FiOS Digital Voice has been launched in 11 states and the District of Columbia. Verizon discontinued its first generation ...

The new Verizon Business unit created by the merger of Verizon and MCI is expanding its VoIP offerings for enterprises that are planning a gradual migration to Internet-based telephony. “Customers are ...

A federal judge has ordered Vonage to halt its use of three voice over Internet Protocol patents owned by Verizon Communications, but he postponed enforcing the ruling for now. U.S. District Judge ...

Verizon Communications on Thursday began offering VoiceWing, its long-awaited broadband phone service expected to challenge AT&T, Vonage and other top providers of Internet phone calls. The unlimited ...

Verizon Communications Inc.’s Business unit will launch a VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) service for customers of its Hosted IP Centrex package that will give users access to new features such as ...

As Verizon prepares to pull out of Oregon, it's leaving behind at least one piece of unfinished business -- an effort to outlaw state and local oversight of phone calls made online.House Bill 2405 ...

My colleague Janie Har, reporting this morning from the Capitol in Salem, writes that Verizon's bill to ban VoIP regulation is proceeding despite opposition from local and state regulators: The bill ...

eSpeaks host Corey Noles sits down with Qualcomm's Craig Tellalian to explore a workplace computing transformation: the rise of AI-ready PCs. Matt Hillary, VP of Security and CISO at Drata, details ...

The Baby Bells suddenly push harder to prevent cable outfits from taking their customers. Already fretting over the Internet-calling threat from cable companies, the old-line phone industry is ...