Verizon

August 6, 2007 -- LANSING - Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox and AARP's Associate State Director for Government Affairs, Bill Knox, today announced a settlement agreement in a Verizon telephone rate case. This agreement will result in Verizon lowering its low-cost, no-frills Call Plan 100 or Value Pak 100 plan by 80¢ a month and freezing the rate until July 1, 2009. Yearly savings will approach $250,000, based on the total number of customers.    » read more »

Company will enact policies to prevent third-party billing without consumers’ consent

July 10, 2007 -- TALLAHASSEE, FL – Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum today announced a new consumer protection initiative for Florida’s telephone consumers as part of an agreement reached with Verizon. Under the agreement, the company will develop an early warning system designed to identify third-party companies that may attempt to place unauthorized charges on consumers’ phone bills.    » read more »

PORTSMOUTH, NH (May 19) -- Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich announced to a cheering crowd of nearly 1,000 labor and community activists from New Hampshire, Maine and Vermont that he would intervene to block Verizon’s sale of its rural telecom business to Fairpoint, thus setting a new stage for a dramatic showdown between unions who are challenging the sale and the nation’s telecommunications industry which has long been immune from significant challenges for its failure to provide rural communities equal access to fiber optic service.    » read more »