Verizon Wireless won’t officially unveil their fourth quarter 2012 earnings until January 22, but Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam insisted that the company had its “best fourth quarter in the history of Verizon Wireless,” adding 2.1 million subscribers on the quarter. Speaking at a Citi conference in Las Vegas, McAdam praised SoftBank’s acquisition of Sprint, insisting that “is far better than two strong carriers and bunch of weak carriers that are having a hard time meeting [...]

A hacker recently claimed that he had obtained the private data of some 3 million Verizon Wireless users, though Verizon Wireless has denied the claim in its entirety. Running what they claimed was an exclusive story last weekend, ZDNet stated that a hacker going by the name of @TibitXimer on Twitter had obtained the private information of some 300,000 Verizon Wireless customers. According to the hacker, he had posted just 10% of the records online [...]

Verizon is enjoying a little industry bragging courtesy of an LTE network build that will be completed six months ahead of schedule. Speaking at the at the UBS Global Media and Communications Conference, Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam bragged that all other Tier 1 carriers are playing “catch up,” something he expects will take most other carriers more than a few quarters to do. “Even if someone catches up from a coverage perspective you’ve got to [...]

Verizon recently announced they would be issuing refunds to Sandy victims for FiOS service outages, even if their problems were solely the result of lost power (which was the case for the majority of users). Now Verizon Wireless says they’re also trying to help Sandy victims by waiving text message and voice charges. According to the company’s Hurricane Sandy FAQ, Verizon Wireless is not charging Sandy Victims in New York or New Jersey for domestic [...]

Verizon recently announced they would be issuing refunds to Sandy victims for FiOS service outages, even if their problems were solely the result of lost power (which was the case for the majority of users). Now Verizon Wireless says they’re also trying to help Sandy victims by waiving text message and voice charges. According to the company’s Hurricane Sandy FAQ, Verizon Wireless is not charging Sandy Victims in New York or New Jersey for domestic [...]

Time Warner Cable and Cox say they’ve both expanded markets where users can bundle Verizon Wireless services, as Verizon’s co-marketing relationship with the cable industry grows. According to a Cox statement, they’re now offering bundled Verizon Wireless services in San Diego, Orange County and Santa Barbara, where customers get gift cards ranging from $100 to $400 depending on how many services they sign up for. Time Warner Cable says they’re now offering bundled Verizon Wireless [...]

Speaking at the CTIA MobileCon tradeshow this week, Verizon Wireless noted that they’re ahead of schedule with their LTE deployment, but also informed attendees that they plan to have their 2G and 3G networks shuttered entirely by 2021. The company says they hope to have all current EVDO network areas covered with LTE by the end of the year. Currently, Verizon says about 35% of their mobile data traffic traveled over their 4G LTE network [...]

Wireless carriers are only just starting to figure out how to cash in on customer location monitoring, selling the data to everyone from marketing departments to city planners. Verizon Wireless has created an entire new division called Precision Marketing to deal with the sale of this data. Fierce Wireless has an interesting conversation with Verizon Wireless’s Colson Hillier, who explores some of the new ways Verizon’s making money from your data — like keeping demographic [...]

With their new Verizon Wireless partnership getting its full attention, Time Warner Cable is now selling their previous stake in Clearwire. Time Warner Cable has alerted other Clearwire investors like Sprint that the company will be selling its 7.8% stake in Clearwire, ending the company’s foray into selling WiMax services. Time Warner Cable never gave hard subscriber numbers but the numbers they did provide were never particularly impressive despite the service being offered since 2009. [...]

Verizon appears to have confirmed that the iPhone 5 will not support simultaneous voice and data use on their networks, though it will work on AT&T. Both Sprint and Verizon tell The Verge that simultaneous voice and data use won’t work for the iPhone 5 on their networks, despite the fact that this hasn’t been a problem with other LTE handsets&#46 Verizon’s older EVDO-based handsets also couldn’t do simultaneous voice/data, something AT&T used to have [...]