UPDATED: Earlier this evening, Starz warned of the potential loss of all of its channels, Starz on Demand and the Starz app through Verizon FiOs amid negotiations with Verizon on a distribution agreement. Now, the company says those channels have gone dark. “Since an agreement was not reached…

Heated Rivalry's Connor Storrie just can’t outrun his famously taut backside. In a new four-minute 30-second short film for Verizon, Storrie, directed by his Vanity Fair Oscar party companion Nia DaCosta (28 Years Later: The Bone Temple), is both hunter and hunted in a clever parody of slasher…

(Updated with Baldoni lawyer’s response) If Justin Baldoni thought his version of what went on during the making of It Ends With Us and the messy fallout from the film was going to go unchallenged, today Blake Lively gave her former co-star a lesson in hardcore lawyering. Sending out a series of…

Wireless data use at NFL stadiums has continued to surge, according to a new report from Verizon. During the 2024 season, average mobile consumption increased 37% over 2023, hitting about 960 terabytes. Video accounted for one-quarter of all data use, while call time inched up 8% to 4.3 million…

UPDATED with latest company statement. Verizon said its engineers have “fully restored” a network outage that hit customers in several major U.S. cities. “Service has returned to normal levels,” the company said in a statement. “If you are still having issues, we recommend restarting your…

Verizon Communications is acquiring Frontier Communications, the largest pure-play fiber internet provider in the U.S., in an in all-cash transaction valued at $20 billion. The deal shakes up the high-speed landscape by significantly expanding Verizon’s fiber footprint and accelerating its…

Verizon is getting ready for the upcoming NFL season by offering its customers a free season of Sunday Ticket, discounts on YouTube TV and other incentives. Starting today, customers can get a free season of NFL Sunday Ticket (a value of up to $449) as well as $10 off the monthly charge for…

Verizon is offering a free one-year subscription to Netflix Premium, the streaming leader’s highest-end plan, to customers signing up for Peacock. The bundle, via the telecom giant’s “+play” hub, saves customers more than $275. It is the first time Netflix and Peacock have been bundled by…

Verizon is launching myHome, a new offering for home internet customers that lets them choose discounted streaming packages and select YouTube TV as their bundled pay-TV provider. The new plan’s arrival is accompanied by the rollouts of a new consumer plan, Verizon Access, and a new smartphone…

UPDATE: AT&T said that the widespread outages on Thursday were likely caused by a sortware update. “Based on our initial review, we believe that today's outage was caused by the application and execution of an incorrect process used as we were expanding our network, not a cyber attack,” the…

Verizon has reached a deal with YouTube and the NFL that will enable the mobile carrier and internet provider to offer new customers access to Sunday Ticket at no extra charge. The offer will be made to Verizon customers who buy or pre-order certain smartphones and sign up for a mobile line, or…

Netflix and Verizon are renewing an offer giving customers of the telecom firm’s +Play platform a 12-month subscription at no extra charge if they pay for a year’s worth of a different streaming service. The news comes roughly a year after the launch of +Play, an online platform enabling users…