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 ...

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 it will replace its traditional central office switches with packet switches. “Construction of this next-generation wireline network will drive new revenue growth for us as we ...

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 ...

Verizon Communications Inc. on Thursday joined the VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) crowd, introducing a service that lets broadband users make unlimited phone calls around the U.S. over a data ...

Analyst Daniel Berninger claims that the disputed technology was an open standard developed in 1996, though Verizon didn't apply for patents until 1997 Two patents owned by Verizon in its infringement ...

Vonage dodged a bullet on Tuesday when an appeals court allowed the company to continue signing up customers while it appeals its loss to Verizon in a patent case last month. The Court of Appeals for ...

For all the positive conjecture about Internet telephony, the Web-based service may well incite something akin to an identity crisis for Verizon Communications and its chief executive, Ivan Seidenberg ...

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 ...

Verizon Communications is forcing customers in southern California to move from traditional telephone service to voice over IP or wireless services, a consumer advocacy group has said in a complaint ...

The bad news for Internet phone provider Vonage keeps piling up, as the company now faces a patent infringement lawsuit from telephone giant Verizon Communications. On Monday, less than a month after ...

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 ...