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Articles tagged with: Verizon and Lawsuit
Verizon Wireless Settles Velveteen Rabbit Lawsuit
After filing a lawsuit last month, verizon Wireless says that it has settled its dispute with a firm which spammed its customers with adverts for a forthcoming movie, The Velveteen Rabbit. In addition to a permanent injunction preventing any future calls, the Utah-based telemarketer has agreed to a US$25,000 cash settlement, which verizon Wireless is donating to the National Domestic Violence Hotline (NDVH). more
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Verizon Wireless Files Lawsuit to Stop Marketers From Calling Customers About Movie
verizon Wireless says that it has filed a lawsuit to stop a marketing company from calling its customers to advertise the upcoming movie, "The Velveteen Rabbit." The lawsuit, filed this week in U.S. District Court in Trenton, alleges the company, Feature Films for Families, illegally used an autodialer to call verizon Wireless customers on behalf of a company called Family 1 Films, based in Los Angeles. more
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Sprint Nextel Facing $1.2 Billion Lawsuit
Sprint Nextel is facing a class-action lawsuit over its early termination fees, which potentially could cost the company as much as US$1.2 billion. Earlier this year, the company lost a US$73 million lawsuit over the early termination fees, but the new lawsuit is seeking to upgrade that to a class-action and hence act on behalf of all the company's customers. more
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Verizon Seeks to Strike Down Visual Voicemail Lawsuit
NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- verizon Communications and its verizon Wireless unit asked a court to dismiss a lawsuit filed by inventor Judah Klausner over visual voicemail technology. more
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InfoSpace Settles Ringtone Royalty Lawsuit with EMI
Music firm, EMI has settled its ringtone lawsuit with US based InfoSpace, the company has announced in a stock market filing. The company did not disclose the terms of the agreement. more
Related Tags: ringtone, ringtones, mobile-content, motricity, cell-phone, infospace, infospace,
ACLU Files Lawsuit Challenging New Spying Law
WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- With President Bush's signature still drying on a new law that expands the government's warrantless surveillance program, the American Civil Liberties Union is headed to court with a legal challenge. more
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Justice Department Requires Divestitures in Verizon's Acquisition of Rural Cellular Corp
The USA's Department of Justice has announced that it will require verizon Communications to divest assets in six geographic areas in Vermont, New York and Washington in order to proceed with its $2.7 billion acquisition of Rural Cellular Corp. (RCC), which does business under the Unicel name. The Department said that the transaction as originally proposed would have substantially lessened competition to the detriment of consumers of mobile wireless telecommunications services in those areas, potentially resulting in higher prices, lower quality and reduced network investments. more
Related Tags: rural, rsa, fcc, department-of-justice, antitrust, new-york, vermont,
UPDATE: Sprint 1Q Loss Widens on Subscriber Losses
(Updates information on Clearwire and IPCS lawsuit in the 18th paragraph and analyst comments in the 10th and 14th paragraphs.) more
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Verizon Wireless Lawsuit Targets Telemarketers
verizon Wireless filed a lawsuit to stop unknown telemarketers from calling its customers and employees with an offer of an extended car warranty. more
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No Telecom Immunity in Wiretap Bill From by Dems
WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- U.S. House Democrats unveiled Tuesday federal wiretapping legislation that wouldn't give immunity to telephone companies that may have cooperated with President George W. Bush's warrantless wiretapping program. more
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