He said he is open to eliminating subsidies on mobile phones that sharply reduce the cost of devices to consumers, but said buyers now prefer paying less up front and paying higher service fees during a long-term wireless contract….”It’s very intriguing. Every carrier has thought about doing away with subsidies,” he said, but “I don’t think U.S. consumers are ready to buy an iPhone for $700.”

The hacker, going by the name @TibitXimer on Twitter, told ZDNet earlier this evening that the hack was carried out earlier this year on July 12, which allowed him to gain root access to the server holding the customer data. Tibit gained access to a server with little difficulty after working with another hacker to identify the security flaw. Tibit downloaded more than 3 million customer entries from Verizon’s database, including names, addresses, mobile serial numbers, the opening date of each account, and account passwords. However, he said that figure was an estimate and had “no clue” exactly how many records there were, and that it was a “low estimate based on the size of one record and the size of all the files.”

The ZDNet story is inaccurate. This incident was reported to the authorities when we first learned of it months ago and an investigation was launched. Many of the details surrounding this incident are incorrect and exaggerated. No Verizon systems were breached, no root access was gained, and this incident impacted a fraction of the number of individuals being reported. We take any and all attempts to violate consumer and customer privacy and security very seriously, so we notified individuals who could potentially have been impacted and took immediate steps to safeguard their information and privacy. Verizon has also notified law enforcement of this recent report as a follow-up to the original case.

One vertical is a venue–like a sports stadium, a college campus or ski area. When we were testing this we partnered with a professional sports team to help them better understand their audience and figure out better ways that they could deliver value to their sponsors and their consumers. We looked at the clusters of demographic makeup for each of their events and found out interesting things about the types of consumers that attended their events–from what type of event, the time of day, their record and other environmental conditions that were occurring in their market.

We are definitely concerned about maintaining a trusted privacy relationship with consumers. We have a mantra that we use: transparency, choice and control for the consumer. In the case of aggregated and anonymous data, we treat that as an opt-out model for our consumers. We provide multiple forms of notification, electronically and through the mail. Customers can make privacy choices online and through our call centers. We take it very seriously.

Brenda Raney, a Verizon Wireless spokeswoman, said it was Apple s decision to design the iPhone 5 so that customers could make voice calls and do Internet activity simultaneously only over Wi-Fi, not over Verizon s cell network. The iPhone 5 is designed to allow customers to make voice calls on the Verizon Wireless network and surf the Web on Wi-Fi, she said in an e-mail. It was an Apple decision.”

the iPhone 5 definitely doesn’t support either SVDO or SVLTE. It’s as simple as looking at the FCC documents and the appropriate sections in the allowed and tested simultaneous transmitters section for SAR (Specific Absorption Rate) testing. There, it’s spelled out that only one air interface can be active at a time, and that only one antenna can be selected for transmit at a time. There’s also an explicitly called out mention to VoLTE not being supported. I didn’t replicate the entire table of simultaneous transmission combinations which need to be tested (it is a huge table) there are no entries with CDMA Voice being active at the same time as any data mode save WiFi.