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			<title><![CDATA[The Fight Against Telemarketers]]></title>
			<link>http://policyblog.verizon.com/PolicyBlog/Blogs/policyblog/JimGerace9/485/The-Fight-Against-Telemarketers.aspx</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Last month, the Star-Ledger (New Jersey’s largest newspaper) published a story on its front page called “Cellular companies hunt nameless nuisances.”  The article focused on how wireless consumers are becoming increasingly annoyed with text message spam and telemarketing calls sent to their wireless phones.  Verizon Wireless tries to stay ahead of the bad guys by using all our resources – network, legal, human and others – to help stop what is not only a nuisance, but an invasion of privacy, for]]></description>
			<pubDate>2008-06-09T14:31:16.0800000-04:00EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Verizon Joins LiMo as Core Member]]></title>
			<link>http://policyblog.verizon.com/PolicyBlog/Blogs/policyblog/JimGerace9/465/Verizon-Joins-LiMo-as-Core-Member.aspx</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Wanted to share this announcement (pasted below, <STRIKE>linked when ready</STRIKE>) here at Policyblog.  [Related: See my post and the Open Development initiative website to trace the ‘openness’ leadership we’ve embraced at Verizon Wireless.]  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  Verizon Joins LiMo Foundation™ With Verizon on Board of Directors, LiMo Expands Major Wireless Service ProviderEngagement Across North America, Asia and Europe LONDON, England; TOKYO, Japan, and BASKING RIDGE, N.J., United States, M]]></description>
			<pubDate>2008-05-14T13:53:38.9900000-04:00EST</pubDate>
			<guid>http://policyblog.verizon.com/PolicyBlog/Blogs/policyblog/JimGerace9/465/Verizon-Joins-LiMo-as-Core-Member.aspx#When:13:53:38.9900000-04:00EST</guid>
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			<title><![CDATA[Open Development and 700MHz]]></title>
			<link>http://policyblog.verizon.com/PolicyBlog/Blogs/policyblog/JimGerace9/461/Open-Development-and-700MHz.aspx</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Some companies are using the regulatory process to try to change rules, after-the-fact, of the recently-completed 700 MHz spectrum auction.  Verizon Wireless is pleased to have been a winner of spectrum in that auction, to support incredible new "4G" products and services.   Google's filing has no legal basis.  It's really no surprise that despite not winning spectrum, they continue to try to change the rules and further their own business interests through the regulatory process.  We expect to]]></description>
			<pubDate>2008-05-06T21:45:36.9070000-04:00EST</pubDate>
			<guid>http://policyblog.verizon.com/PolicyBlog/Blogs/policyblog/JimGerace9/461/Open-Development-and-700MHz.aspx#When:21:45:36.9070000-04:00EST</guid>
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			<title><![CDATA[VZW Counsel on 700MHz Plans]]></title>
			<link>http://policyblog.verizon.com/PolicyBlog/Blogs/policyblog/JimGerace9/454/VZW-Counsel-on-700MHz-Plans.aspx</link>
			<description><![CDATA[In case you missed it, I wanted to pass along the remarks of our General Counsel before the House Commerce Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.  Good stuff on “transformative” power of the wireless broadband now within reach.    Oral TestimonySteven E. ZippersteinVice President, Legal and External Affairsand General CounselVerizon Wireless  COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND COMMERCESUBCOMMITTEE ON TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND THE INTERNETU.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES  April 15, 2008 Good morning]]></description>
			<pubDate>2008-04-21T21:20:19.0170000-04:00EST</pubDate>
			<guid>http://policyblog.verizon.com/PolicyBlog/Blogs/policyblog/JimGerace9/454/VZW-Counsel-on-700MHz-Plans.aspx#When:21:20:19.0170000-04:00EST</guid>
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			<title><![CDATA[CTIA, VZW's McAdam Call for Tax Fairness]]></title>
			<link>http://policyblog.verizon.com/PolicyBlog/Blogs/policyblog/JimGerace9/450/CTIA-VZW-s-McAdam-Call-for-Tax-Fairness.aspx</link>
			<description><![CDATA[In “honor” of tax day, CTIA issued the following statement, which quotes Verizon Wireless President and CEO Lowell McAdam.  =======================================================news release April 15, 2008Contact: Joe Farren202.736.3207 CTIA –  Calls for Passage of Cell Tax Fairness Legislation WASHINGTON, DC – On Tax Day, CTIA-The Wireless Association and its member companies are urging Congress to pass legislation requiring a five-year hiatus on new discriminatory state and local wireless tax]]></description>
			<pubDate>2008-04-15T21:23:31.8000000-04:00EST</pubDate>
			<guid>http://policyblog.verizon.com/PolicyBlog/Blogs/policyblog/JimGerace9/450/CTIA-VZW-s-McAdam-Call-for-Tax-Fairness.aspx#When:21:23:31.8000000-04:00EST</guid>
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			<title><![CDATA[Emergency Alerts Over Your Wireless]]></title>
			<link>http://policyblog.verizon.com/PolicyBlog/Blogs/policyblog/JimGerace9/444/Emergency-Alerts-Over-Your-Wireless.aspx</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Thought I’d share this just issued statement.  We participated in the development of this framework and are proud this program should soon help to protect the public via their wireless device. VERIZON WIRELESS APPLAUDS FCC ACTION ON NATIONAL EMERGENCY ALERT PROGRAM BASKING RIDGE, N.J. – The Federal Communications Commission has adopted a framework for a national emergency alert program, following the recommendations made by the Commercial Mobile Service Alert Advisory Committee (CMSAAC).  Steven]]></description>
			<pubDate>2008-04-10T18:21:34.0030000-04:00EST</pubDate>
			<guid>http://policyblog.verizon.com/PolicyBlog/Blogs/policyblog/JimGerace9/444/Emergency-Alerts-Over-Your-Wireless.aspx#When:18:21:34.0030000-04:00EST</guid>
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			<title><![CDATA[Open Development Conf. To Issue Device Specs]]></title>
			<link>http://policyblog.verizon.com/PolicyBlog/Blogs/policyblog/JimGerace9/426/Open-Development-Conf-To-Issue-Device-Specs.aspx</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Thought you should see Monday’s news release on our Open development conference:  Verizon Wireless To Issue Device Specs At Open Development Device Conference 02/25/2008 BASKING RIDGE, NJ — Verizon Wireless today said its upcoming Open Development Device Conference will feature the release and publication of Version 1.0 of the technical specifications for new wireless devices that will work on its “Any Device, Any App” network-only service option. The conference, scheduled for March 19 in New Yo]]></description>
			<pubDate>2008-02-26T15:26:20.3170000-05:00EST</pubDate>
			<guid>http://policyblog.verizon.com/PolicyBlog/Blogs/policyblog/JimGerace9/426/Open-Development-Conf-To-Issue-Device-Specs.aspx#When:15:26:20.3170000-05:00EST</guid>
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			<title><![CDATA[Early Termination Fees]]></title>
			<link>http://policyblog.verizon.com/PolicyBlog/Blogs/policyblog/JimGerace9/421/Early-Termination-Fees.aspx</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Consumers Union recently tested wireless service providers’ policies on Early Termination Fees (ETF) by calling all the national providers to see if their reps knew what they offered their customers.   Dow Jones reported that reps from three of the providers – including Verizon Wireless – correctly answered questions about his or her company’s ETF policies.   Reps at AT&T, which announced last fall that it would implement a pro-rated ETF, but has yet to provide more details, apparently gave seve]]></description>
			<pubDate>2008-02-05T21:50:58.5430000-05:00EST</pubDate>
			<guid>http://policyblog.verizon.com/PolicyBlog/Blogs/policyblog/JimGerace9/421/Early-Termination-Fees.aspx#When:21:50:58.5430000-05:00EST</guid>
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			<title><![CDATA[Selling Cell Numbers?]]></title>
			<link>http://policyblog.verizon.com/PolicyBlog/Blogs/policyblog/JimGerace9/418/Selling-Cell-Numbers-.aspx</link>
			<description><![CDATA[There have been recent news reports suggesting that a Seattle-based company called Intelius has created (or is creating) a cell phone directory, selling "unpublished and unlisted" numbers --including cell phone numbers.  The company has also apparently just filed for an IPO, so it claims not to be communicating externally due to a "quiet period." As you know, Verizon Wireless has consistently refused to provide our customers' numbers to any directory or third party, and we will continue to refus]]></description>
			<pubDate>2008-01-29T19:59:32.5230000-05:00EST</pubDate>
			<guid>http://policyblog.verizon.com/PolicyBlog/Blogs/policyblog/JimGerace9/418/Selling-Cell-Numbers-.aspx#When:19:59:32.5230000-05:00EST</guid>
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			<title><![CDATA[Open for Business]]></title>
			<link>http://policyblog.verizon.com/PolicyBlog/Blogs/policyblog/JimGerace9/417/Open-for-Business.aspx</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Today Tony Lewis, our new VP for the Open Development initiative, announced March 19-20 as the dates for our Open Development conference.  This conference is for the development community looking to get their innovations onto our network (see the release below for further details.) Because in the virtual world space is virtually unlimited, we’ll be soliciting questions from those unable to attend the conference in New York City here at Policyblog.  We’ll answer as many as we can and publish them]]></description>
			<pubDate>2008-01-22T16:15:10.7930000-05:00EST</pubDate>
			<guid>http://policyblog.verizon.com/PolicyBlog/Blogs/policyblog/JimGerace9/417/Open-for-Business.aspx#When:16:15:10.7930000-05:00EST</guid>
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			<title><![CDATA[Welcome 'Google Phone']]></title>
			<link>http://policyblog.verizon.com/PolicyBlog/Blogs/policyblog/JimGerace9/394/Welcome-Google-Phone-.aspx</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Verizon Wireless shares the goal of more open mobile application development. Yet again, the highly-competitive wireless industry is demonstrating that neither legislation nor regulation is required to produce innovation. We support innovation that is consistent with the values of integrity of service, privacy, security and reliability. We welcome the support of Google, handset makers and others for our goal of providing more open development of applications on mobile handsets. In today's wirele]]></description>
			<pubDate>2007-11-05T20:24:34.6470000-05:00EST</pubDate>
			<guid>http://policyblog.verizon.com/PolicyBlog/Blogs/policyblog/JimGerace9/394/Welcome-Google-Phone-.aspx#When:20:24:34.6470000-05:00EST</guid>
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			<title><![CDATA[Response to Wall Street Journal, Pt II]]></title>
			<link>http://policyblog.verizon.com/PolicyBlog/Blogs/policyblog/JimGerace9/390/Response-to-Wall-Street-Journal-Pt-II.aspx</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Click here to see the letter I wrote to the WSJ responding to “Free My Phone.” ]]></description>
			<pubDate>2007-10-29T15:32:58.6130000-04:00EST</pubDate>
			<guid>http://policyblog.verizon.com/PolicyBlog/Blogs/policyblog/JimGerace9/390/Response-to-Wall-Street-Journal-Pt-II.aspx#When:15:32:58.6130000-04:00EST</guid>
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			<title><![CDATA[Response to the Wall Street Journal]]></title>
			<link>http://policyblog.verizon.com/PolicyBlog/Blogs/policyblog/JimGerace9/387/Response-to-the-Wall-Street-Journal.aspx</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal article (“Free My Phone,” Oct. 22) urges “government action” to “free” a vibrant handset marketplace.  Put aside for a second the fact that in less than three years U.S. operators have introduced over 2,500 devices.  The Journal makes an increasingly popular but mistaken assumption that the European government-mandated model of unlocked handsets means better consumer choices.   Let’s start with the European experience.  Viruses and Trojans are part of the unlocked handset]]></description>
			<pubDate>2007-10-24T16:46:05.9330000-04:00EST</pubDate>
			<guid>http://policyblog.verizon.com/PolicyBlog/Blogs/policyblog/JimGerace9/387/Response-to-the-Wall-Street-Journal.aspx#When:16:46:05.9330000-04:00EST</guid>
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			<title><![CDATA[Voluntary settlement with NY Attorney General]]></title>
			<link>http://policyblog.verizon.com/PolicyBlog/Blogs/policyblog/JimGerace9/386/Voluntary-settlement-with-NY-Attorney-General.aspx</link>
			<description><![CDATA[As part of our voluntary agreement with the New York Attorney General, our advertising of BroadbandAccess and NationalAccess wireless data plans has changed.  For the vast majority of users, our broadband EVDO network will provide everything they need for Internet access. Some customers - current and former - will hear from us soon with how they may be impacted from our agreement with the NY AG.  We expect to share those details here as well. Click here to see the “older” ads. Click here to see ]]></description>
			<pubDate>2007-10-23T18:16:23.1200000-04:00EST</pubDate>
			<guid>http://policyblog.verizon.com/PolicyBlog/Blogs/policyblog/JimGerace9/386/Voluntary-settlement-with-NY-Attorney-General.aspx#When:18:16:23.1200000-04:00EST</guid>
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			<title><![CDATA[Verizon Wireless Comment on CPNI]]></title>
			<link>http://policyblog.verizon.com/PolicyBlog/Blogs/policyblog/JimGerace9/381/Verizon-Wireless-Comment-on-CPNI.aspx</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Let’s be clear: Verizon Wireless does not sell personal customer information to third-party advertisers.  Period. The notice that was sent (and the cause of some buzz) simply alerts our customers that Verizon Wireless may share customer information with the Verizon group of companies.   In other words, we are keeping all the data in question in the family – unless you tell us not to.  Our customers are asking us for bundles that provide home and wireless services, and the sharing of information ]]></description>
			<pubDate>2007-10-15T21:33:10.8830000-04:00EST</pubDate>
			<guid>http://policyblog.verizon.com/PolicyBlog/Blogs/policyblog/JimGerace9/381/Verizon-Wireless-Comment-on-CPNI.aspx#When:21:33:10.8830000-04:00EST</guid>
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			<title><![CDATA[Stairway To Heaven, Thanks to Competitive Market]]></title>
			<link>http://policyblog.verizon.com/PolicyBlog/Blogs/policyblog/JimGerace9/379/Stairway-To-Heaven-Thanks-to-Competitive-Market.aspx</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Sometimes innovation comes in giant steps: EV-DO broadband services with full access to the Internet, a ground-breaking service introduction, like V CAST Mobile TV, or the innovative phones we’re offering our customers this quarter.   But sometimes just a few seconds of a song can mark innovation in the marketplace.  That’s why the elusive ring tones from Led Zeppelin – and ringbacks and more – becoming available through our service today is a big deal.  As the story in the New York Times states]]></description>
			<pubDate>2007-10-15T16:24:06.4300000-04:00EST</pubDate>
			<guid>http://policyblog.verizon.com/PolicyBlog/Blogs/policyblog/JimGerace9/379/Stairway-To-Heaven-Thanks-to-Competitive-Market.aspx#When:16:24:06.4300000-04:00EST</guid>
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			<title><![CDATA[Thoughts On Digital Technology And Free Expression]]></title>
			<link>http://policyblog.verizon.com/PolicyBlog/Blogs/policyblog/JimGerace9/375/Thoughts-On-Digital-Technology-And-Free-Expression.aspx</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Today’s New York Times editorial (“The Verizon Warning,” Oct. 3) endorses governmental regulation to correct a mistake. We have already corrected the mistake and we disagree that governmental regulation is the best way of empowering the free flow of ideas.   Last week, Verizon promptly fixed the misinterpretation of an outdated policy, which had been created in a different era to deal with commercial messages used to reach many wireless customers at the same time.   As with many communications c]]></description>
			<pubDate>2007-10-03T18:40:37.1930000-04:00EST</pubDate>
			<guid>http://policyblog.verizon.com/PolicyBlog/Blogs/policyblog/JimGerace9/375/Thoughts-On-Digital-Technology-And-Free-Expression.aspx#When:18:40:37.1930000-04:00EST</guid>
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			<title><![CDATA[VERIZON WIRELESS STATEMENT ON TEXT MESSAGING]]></title>
			<link>http://policyblog.verizon.com/PolicyBlog/Blogs/policyblog/JimGerace9/372/VERIZON-WIRELESS-STATEMENT-ON-TEXT-MESSAGING.aspx</link>
			<description><![CDATA[BASKING RIDGE, N.J. – On Wednesday, September 26, Verizon Wireless received a letter from NARAL regarding the company’s policy on text messaging.  The following statement may be attributed to Jeffrey Nelson, spokesperson for Verizon Wireless. “The decision to not allow text messaging on an important, though sensitive, public policy issue was incorrect, and we have fixed the process that led to this isolated incident. “Upon learning about this situation, senior Verizon Wireless executives immedia]]></description>
			<pubDate>2007-09-27T16:01:37.9770000-04:00EST</pubDate>
			<guid>http://policyblog.verizon.com/PolicyBlog/Blogs/policyblog/JimGerace9/372/VERIZON-WIRELESS-STATEMENT-ON-TEXT-MESSAGING.aspx#When:16:01:37.9770000-04:00EST</guid>
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			<title><![CDATA[Response to the NY Times]]></title>
			<link>http://policyblog.verizon.com/PolicyBlog/Blogs/policyblog/JimGerace9/342/Response-to-the-NY-Times.aspx</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I sent this letter (below) on Monday to the New York Times.Mr. Andrew Rosenthal Editorial Page Editor The New York Times 620 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 10018 To the Editor: The Times’s Aug. 6 editorial argues that “closed networks” are the reason “cell phone technology in the United States is so primitive compared with Europe’s and Japan’s.”   If the American model, promoted by the Federal Communications Commission’s decision to allow market forces to prevail, is primitive, what explains why 240]]></description>
			<pubDate>2007-08-07T12:37:46.4770000-04:00EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[TXT Doubles in 10 Months]]></title>
			<link>http://policyblog.verizon.com/PolicyBlog/Blogs/policyblog/JimGerace9/336/TXT-Doubles-in-10-Months.aspx</link>
			<description><![CDATA[There was lots of coverage of the news that Verizon Wireless customers had sent/received 10 BILLION text messages (VZW customers also send 200 million multi-media messages, another record) -- just the month of June.  That’s a big number, and I loved this factoid from The VZW release:  “If a person were to send a single text message every 15 seconds, it would take more than 4,750 years of continuous texting to send 10 billion text messages and more than 95 years to send 200 million multimedia mes]]></description>
			<pubDate>2007-07-25T19:02:16.7130000-04:00EST</pubDate>
			<guid>http://policyblog.verizon.com/PolicyBlog/Blogs/policyblog/JimGerace9/336/TXT-Doubles-in-10-Months.aspx#When:19:02:16.7130000-04:00EST</guid>
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			<title><![CDATA[TXT Spam]]></title>
			<link>http://policyblog.verizon.com/PolicyBlog/Blogs/policyblog/JimGerace9/138/TXT-Spam.aspx</link>
			<description><![CDATA[In September 2006, Verizon Wireless customers added another proof point to their devotion to wireless data: they sent and received more than 5 billion text messages.  The quantity is staggering, and of course it takes the nation’s best wireless network to push those messages through fast. And while that number may be surprising, some of our customers might tell you it feels like all 5 billion of those messages ended up in their “in box” . . . . as spam. The truth is that spam TXT to Verizon Wire]]></description>
			<pubDate>2006-11-07T15:54:18.3430000-05:00EST</pubDate>
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