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How Verizon Fios Trolled The Gaming World With An Unbreakable Controller

Internet lags out. Controllers get chucked. Game nights are ruined as plastic rains down. Verizon Fios is here to prevent this catastrophe.

Gaming By G/O Media Studios for Verizon Fios Jan 24

Internet Providers to Offer Free or Discounted Services to Keep Low-Income Americans Connected

It's part of the Affordable Connectivity Program, which aims to make Internet more accessible to low-income Americans across the country.

Tech News Passant Rabie May 9

Frontier Launches Network-Wide 2Gbps Fiber Internet, a First in the U.S.

Competitors like Verizon and AT&T are looking to expand their own 2Gbps broadband tiers more widely later this year.

Tech News Mack DeGeurin Feb 23

Watching OAN’s Lies Will Be Difficult Now That It’s Been Dumped by DirecTV

The satellite TV provider notified One America News Network that it would not be renewing its distribution agreement.

Tech News Jody Serrano Jan 15

Cricket Wireless Customers Are Getting the Ad-Supported Tier of HBO Max for Free

Offering free access to streaming content has become a favored strategy of mobile networks eager to woo potential customers.

Internet Brianna Provenzano Aug 19

Verizon Is Giving Away AMC+ Before The Walking Dead Premiere—With a Catch

Verizon is trying to woo new customers with a sweet deal.

Internet Brianna Provenzano Aug 12

Google Fiber Got Kicked in the Nuts by Alphabet

Not everything Google touches turns to gold—just ask Robert Scoble—and Google Fiber, it seems, is in the midst of joining those not-so-illustrious ranks. According to a new report from the Information, Alphabet CEO Larry Page recently passed down some strong recommendations to Google Fiber leader Craig Barratt: slash his staff numbers in half and drastically…

Tech News Sophie Kleeman Aug 25

After Billions in Subsidies, The Final Verizon FiOS Map Is Bleak as Hell

As Verizon inches towards the end of its long-promised FiOS expansion, we can finally get a look at all the places these heavily trumpeted fiber cables have actually ended up. Behold the final(ish) Verizon FiOS Fiber map. It’s bleak as hell. The map itself comes from Fiber For All (you can see the full interactive…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg Jan 30

The Best and Worst ISPs in America

Your ISP probably sucks. You don’t need the FCC to tell you that. But a recent study conducted on behalf of the FCC reveals just how badly some of them suck. And the best ISP in America? Verizon FiOS. The SamKnows study found that not only is FiOS meeting its speed claims, they’re exceeding them…

Tech News Brent Rose Aug 2

Verizon FIOS Available at 150Mbps (for $200 a Month)

Money to burn? Live in an area where Verizon Communications‘ FIOS is available? In the next month, you’ll be able to get 150Mbps internet for $195 a month (after you sign up for a one-year contract). [Gigaom]

Tech News Kat Hannaford Nov 22

Verizon Apps Turn Your Droid or Imagio Into an All-In-One FiOS Remote

Verizon’s Mobile Remote is an app for Windows Mobile and Android (though for the time being, just the Imagio and Droid) which lets you control your FiOS box locally over Wi-Fi, and share photos from your smartphone. While Verizon’s promo video implies that it’s a makeshift solution—”if you can’t find your remote”—from the looks of…

Tech News John Herrman Feb 18

HBO Go Streams All the HBO You Can Eat (If You’re Already a Subscriber, That Is)

In beta for a while, HBO Go has launched: It’s a streaming site with access to over 600 hours of HBO programming, from original series like Big Love to Watchmen. The catch? You already have to be an HBO subscriber. Dumb. You also have to have the right cable provider to have access (right now,…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Feb 17

Verizon FiOS Set to Double Early Termination Fee to $360

Oh, Verizon. Will you ever stop breaking our hearts? First it’s a $350 ETF for smartphone cancellation, and now you’ve gone and upped the ante even further for FiOS customers. https://gizmodo.com/verizon-defends-350-early-termination-fee-to-the-fcc-5431184 Starting this Sunday, the cost of canceling your two-year FiOS contract will jump from $179 to $360. Why? Because they’re jerkfaces. Even worse is…

Tech News Brian Barrett Jan 14

The Top Spokesassholes in Tech

Each day I get a little bit sadder that Billy Mays is no longer with us. Good thing there are so many spokeassholes vying for position in the marketing pantheon. https://gizmodo.com/billy-mays-well-known-tv-pitchman-dead-at-50-5303389 UPDATE: Looks like there was a late entry to our list of current top spokesassholes: Miss Julia Allison has just signed a yearlong deal…

Tech News Rosa Golijan Aug 18

Verizon Broadband Customers Get Free Boingo Wi-Fi

Verizon’s now giving free Wi-Fi access at Boingo hotspots to Verizon broadband subscribers—current FiOS customers with at least 20Mbps packages and new ones who get the 25Mbps package, and new or current DSL customers with at least 3Mbps service. Woohoo? Verizon Broadband Better Than Ever With Free Wi-Fi Millions of High Speed Internet and FiOS…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Jul 27

Verizon FiOS’s Widget Bazaar Opens Tonight: Twitter and Facebook on Your TV

If I’m not mistaken, Verizon is the first to bring Twitter to your TV—Microsoft and Vizio have promised it—when their Widget Bazaar starts rolling out to FiOS customers tonight. (Update: I’m mistaken.) Why do I like it better? https://gizmodo.com/facebook-and-twitter-come-to-xbox-live-this-fall-5274312 It’s actually more useful than just painstakingly banging out 140 characters on your remote—which you can’t…

Social Media Matt Buchanan Jul 14

What’s in Store for Verizon FiOS: Slingbox-Like Streaming and More

Gear Live had a sit-down with a senior rep from Verizon and found a few tasty hints as to what’s in FiOS’s future. Most exciting? They’re working on a Slingbox-like service for streaming live TV. That content streaming feature, confirmed by senior VP Eric Rabe, is definitely in the works, pending the resolution of some…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz May 4

Sneaky Unconfirmed Dealzmodo: Free Verizon FiOS Set-Top Box for Whiny Customers

We’ve got a Verizon tipster who let us know that starting today, Verizon is offering one free high-def or standard-def set-top box to new customers—but it’s all unofficial, see? All you have to do is sign up for one of Verizon’s 12-month commitments and kvetch and moan about the monthly set-top box’s pricing being too…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Nov 22

AT&T U-Verse Update Now Allowing DVR on 8 TV Sets At Once

In an attempt to one-up Verizon’s FiOS, AT&T has finally rolled out a new software update for its U-verse service that’ll let subscribers watch recorded shows on up to eight different TV sets. FiOS only offers multiroom DVR for seven different televisions currently. The feature is already available in San Francisco and nearby subscriber cities,…

Tech News Elaine Chow Sep 9

Dealzmodo: Free Home Media HD-DVR For a Year With Verizon FiOS

Sign up for some sweet, sweet fiber pipes via Verizon FiOS between now and October 4th and you can bag a year’s worth of free Home Media multi-room DVR-the nifty recorder that can play three different saved shows on up to six TVs simultaneously, with individual pause/play controls on each set. You know, the one…

Television John Mahoney Aug 12

Verizon Fios

How Verizon Fios Trolled The Gaming World With An Unbreakable Controller

Internet Providers to Offer Free or Discounted Services to Keep Low-Income Americans Connected

Frontier Launches Network-Wide 2Gbps Fiber Internet, a First in the U.S.

Watching OAN’s Lies Will Be Difficult Now That It’s Been Dumped by DirecTV

Cricket Wireless Customers Are Getting the Ad-Supported Tier of HBO Max for Free

Verizon Is Giving Away AMC+ Before The Walking Dead Premiere—With a Catch

Google Fiber Got Kicked in the Nuts by Alphabet

After Billions in Subsidies, The Final Verizon FiOS Map Is Bleak as Hell

The Best and Worst ISPs in America

Verizon FIOS Available at 150Mbps (for $200 a Month)

Verizon Apps Turn Your Droid or Imagio Into an All-In-One FiOS Remote

HBO Go Streams All the HBO You Can Eat (If You’re Already a Subscriber, That Is)

Verizon FiOS Set to Double Early Termination Fee to $360

The Top Spokesassholes in Tech

Verizon Broadband Customers Get Free Boingo Wi-Fi

Verizon FiOS’s Widget Bazaar Opens Tonight: Twitter and Facebook on Your TV

What’s in Store for Verizon FiOS: Slingbox-Like Streaming and More

Sneaky Unconfirmed Dealzmodo: Free Verizon FiOS Set-Top Box for Whiny Customers

AT&T U-Verse Update Now Allowing DVR on 8 TV Sets At Once

Dealzmodo: Free Home Media HD-DVR For a Year With Verizon FiOS

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