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By Juliana Gruenwald
The bid by Verizon Wireless to buy spectrum and enter into joint marketing agreements with a group of cable firms was bound to spark concern. After all, Verizon is already the nation’s biggest wireless provider. But, so far, critics have yet to reveal a smoking gun that would prompt federal regulators to block the deal outright. As a result, the agreements are likely to get approved, but the government could add conditions aimed at addressing some of the competitive issues.
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Can the Verizon/Big Cable monopoly be stopped?
Verizon Wireless and the largest cable companies have inked an agreement to stop competing and become partners. But they’ve kept the details secret.
Here’s what we do know: this deal is a death knell for consumer choice and industry competition. By joining together and marketing each others’ services, Verizon Wireless, Comcast, Time Warner, Bright House, and Cox will concentrate their power in the industry, becoming a virtual monopoly.
The deal also includes a joint operating entity to develop exclusive, proprietary technologies the Verizon/Big Cable partners would use to crush competitors.
Verizon and the cable companies don’t want scrutiny of this deal. With opposition to the deal growing, the FCC just temporarily suspended its regulatory review.
But even if the companies do provide more information about the deal to the FCC, much of it will be locked behind confidentiality agreements, hidden from the public. The stakes are too high to let this happen.
Will you ask your members of Congress to demand a public hearing on the Verizon/Big Cable monopoly-making deal? Click here to take action.
Elected officials, consumer organizations, civil rights groups, telecom workers and individual consumers are speaking out about the effect this deal will have on pricing, competition and jobs. Representatives Henry Waxman and Anna Eshoo of California have begun the call for hearings.
Last week, the CWA District 1/IBEW Local 2213 and IBEW New England Regional Committees and the CWA District 2-13/ IBEW Mid Atlantic Regional Committees met with the Company together to discuss issues in a new approach to bargaining. For the past 11 months the two committees have been meeting separately with the company. The Union [...]
HUNTSVILLE, Ala., May 3, 2012
Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE, Nasdaq: VZ) has announced preliminary results of the shareholder vote at its annual meeting. The company reported that a substantial majority of the shareholders approved the following management proposals:
Election of each of Verizon’s 11 directors standing for election to a one-year term.
Ratification of the appointment of Ernst & [...]
By Linda Schmidt
For almost a week, hundreds of people have been camping out in Queens for the chance to get a job.
The campers are outside the training offices of Ironworkers Local 46 in the Woodside section. They started lining up earlier this week to apply for just 50 apprenticeships.
The line stretches down the block and [...]
The NYS Attorney General just intervened in the PSC’s Verizon Service Quality proceeding. The AG has just recommended actions to the PSC including ending Verizon workforce reductions. The Attorney General’s intervention at the PSC confirms CWA’s position that Verizon has been reducing its workforce at the detriment of its customers and our jobs. Here’s [...]
Reports of poor landline repair service are piling up in the state of New York, and the attorney general there wants Verizon to provide some answers. Calling it a “shortchanging” of customers, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said the nation’s largest carrier is spending too much time focusing on the exploding wireless market and [...]
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April 18, 2012
The vacancies for Field Technician are Article 8 Special Postings open for bidding from 4/18/12 through 4/24/12. These Field Technician openings are NOT Specific Posted Vacancies (SPVs). Only Field Technicians and TTA-Field Technicians located in Article 8 Units Nassau County, Suffolk County, Westchester County, Rockland County, and Poughkeepsie may apply for these [...]
Verizon Wireless Increases Service Revenues by 7.7 Percent, Expands Margins; Demand Remains Strong for FiOS and Strategic Services
Consolidated
59 cents in diluted earnings per share (EPS), compared with 51 cents per share in 1Q 2011 – a 15.7 percent increase.
$6.0 billion in cash flow from operating activities, up $922 million compared with 1Q 2011.
4.6 percent year-over-year [...]
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
CWA District 1/IBEW Local 2213 and IBEW New England Regional Committees returned to the bargaining table on Monday April 16, 2012 at the Rye Town Hilton in Rye, NY. All of the retrogressive demands that the Company had proposed in August still remain on their agenda.
Wages -.the Company has offered 0% wages [...]
Verizon Benefits
Verizon has partnered with Hewitt to conduct a dependent verification process to ensure that only eligible dependents are provided with Verizon group health plan coverage. If you have dependents enrolled in Verizon’s group health plans, you need to verify the eligibility of each of your enrolled dependents including your legal spouse/domestic partner and children [...]
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