LISBON — IM Wireless held its grand opening/ribbon-cutting ceremony Friday, Sept. 22, at its new location, 580 Lisbon St. in the Mid-Town Shopping Plaza. IM Wireless is a Verizon Wireless authorized retailer based in Salem, New Hampshire, and has 27 retail locations throughout New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Maine. The staff at IM Wireless is ready to […]
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Wireless home Internet service launches in Auburn
AUBURN — A Camden-based company focused on bringing household Internet to most of Maine within three years expanded into Auburn on Thursday. “Today, we will cover 25 percent of Maine households and that’s just this year alone,” Redzone Wireless President and Chief Executive Officer Jim McKenna said. “We really just started our effort in May […]
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Verizon to buy AOL for $4.4B
NEW YORK — Verizon is buying AOL for about $4.4 billion, advancing the telecom’s push in both mobile and advertising fields. The acquisition gives Verizon an entryway into increasingly competitive online video. The New York company is the country’s largest wireless carrier as well as an Internet and TV provider, and it is through wireless […]
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Helicopter spills large batteries on Ragged Mountain
ROCKPORT — A helicopter carrying six large lead acid batteries to a Verizon cellphone tower atop Ragged Mountain spilled its payload sometime Tuesday, causing most to explode and some to catch on fire on the slopes. A responder from the Maine Department of Environmental Protection went to the scene Tuesday and Wednesday, finally locating the […]
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Verizon agrees to buy Vodafone’s 45 stake in Verizon Wireless for $130 billion
NEW YORK (AP) — Verizon will own its wireless business outright after agreeing Monday to pay $130 billion for the 45 percent stake in Verizon Wireless owned by British cellphone carrier Vodafone. The buyout, the second-largest acquisition deal on record, would give Vodafone PLC additional cash to pursue its expansion ambitions in Europe. Those ambitions […]
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Big disconnect: are traditonal copper phone lines dead?
MANTOLOKING, N.J. — Robert Post misses his phone line. Post, 85, has a pacemaker that needs to be checked once a month by phone. But the copper wiring that once connected his home to the rest of the world is gone, and the phone company refuses to restore it. In October 2012, Superstorm Sandy pushed […]