Articles tagged with: Verizon and Justice Department

Antitrust Elevated in Obama Era

The Justice Department is looking into whether large phone companies such as AT&T and Verizon Communications are abusing their market power to compete unfairly against smaller rivals by locking up exclusive deals to provide service to popular handsets such as Apple's iPhone. more

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Verizon Wireless To Divest in 85 Markets for Alltel Merger

WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- verizon Wireless is offering to divest airwaves in 85 markets as a part of talks with the Justice Department over a pending merger with Alltel.  more

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FCC To Take Up Verizon, Rural Merger at Aug. 1 Meeting

WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- The Federal Communications Commission will consider at its Aug. 1 meeting a pending merger between verizon Communications and Rural Cellular, which does business as Unicel.  more

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