Verizon

Overview

Verizon is a telecommunications company providing wired and wireless telephone services and internet in the United States.

Notes

Verizon uses DNS redirection as of 2010-06-18 -- see Verizon FiOS DNS Redirection?. Known redirect IP addresses include: 8.15.7.117, 63.251.179.13, 66.150.2.134.

Links

Official

• Verizon main site
• Verizon internet services
  • Verizon High Speed Internet for Business: prices and speeds

Reference

• Issuepedia for ethical issues
• Wikipedia

Technical

• 2005-03-16 SMTP & Verizon DSL

Incidents

Offsite

• htwiki:Verizon: the $3000 overcharge

Verizon FiOS Installation

• 2007-10-04 Verizon FiOS out for 5th time in 7 months, but...
• 2007-10-01 Verizon FiOS installation sparks ... nothing?: stop press - Verizon successfully installs FiOS in five hours, and nothing bad happens.

VerizonMath

VerizonMath blog: a customer had a bizarre encounter with Verizon's billing department, and started a blog to cover that encounter and subsequent events:

• 2006-12-07 Verizon doesn't know Dollars from Cents: initial post
  • 2006-12-08:
    • Just got an email from Verizon...
    • My email response to Verizon

Humor

• XKCD (in response to the VerizonMath incident)