Citing growth in wireless, long-distance and broadband services, Verizon reported Q3 revenue of $18.206 billion, up 6.7% over the same period last year. Q3 earnings were $1.8 billion -- 64 cents per diluted share, or 65 cents per share before one special item. For the first time, Verizon Wireless contributed more than 40 percent of Verizon’s total revenues. Some highlights for Q3:

Verizon Wireless: added 1.7 million net new customers, the largest quarterly customer increase in the history of the company, which was formed in April 2000. The total number of customers grew 16.9 percent year-over-year to 42.1 million, including 40.2 million retail customers. Average monthly churn was 1.5%. Average monthly service revenue per customer increased 3.1 percent year-over-year to $51.58.

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Prepaid phone cards charge a lot of hidden fee reducing the number of minutes. This article looks at the various hidden fees charged by the phone card companies. But charges from our company are well advertised and clearly stated.

(PRWEB) Though some of us know that there are some hidden fees charged by phone card companies, not every one knows about all the charges. This article tries to cover most of the aspects in regard to the hidden fees.

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MONROE, La. (BUSINESS WIRE) CenturyTel, Inc. (NYSE:CTL) announces operating results for third quarter 2004 that met or exceeded First Call consensus estimates.

-- Operating revenues, excluding nonrecurring items, increased 1.2% to $607.4 million from $600.3 million. Reported under GAAP, operating revenues increased 0.6% to $603.9 million from $600.3 million.

-- Operating cash flow (as defined in the attached financial schedules), excluding nonrecurring items, was $308.2 million.

-- Net income, excluding nonrecurring items, was $81.1 million compared to $88.5 million in third quarter 2003. Net income, reported under GAAP, was $86.2 million compared to $91.0 million in third quarter 2003.

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SAN ANTONIO (Business Wire)Eligible SBC All Distance Service Customers Can Now Receive DSL for Less Than Most Cable Modem, Many Leading Dial-up Services Market Uncertainty by Other Providers Makes It Right Time to Switch

In a move designed to appeal to dial Internet and cable modem customers and consumers worried about other companies potentially leaving the market, SBC Communications Inc. (NYSE:SBC) today announced the lowest monthly price ever for SBC Yahoo! DSL. It is the best consumer price available for similar speed and term offers from any leading provider in the nation.

Effective Monday, Nov. 1, SBC Yahoo! DSL will be available for $19.95 a month for new DSL residential customers who commit to a one- year term and subscribe to the popular SBC unlimited local and long distance calling plan, All Distance.

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Please help. I have repeatedly, five months in a row, asked AT&T Long Distance to stop sending me a bill.

I do not want or use the services.

Representatives insist that my local carrier has to send the company a stop order of some kind, but when I call SBC representatives say there is no record of us having AT&T as our long distance carrier so they can’t do anything.

We go back and forth with this every month, and I’m disgusted with all of them.

I’m wondering how many people they are doing this to who might not even know that they don’t really owe the money but don’t understand the process by which to extricate themselves from this incompetent grip.

How can it be that I can call AT&T repeatedly and tell the representatives I don’t want and am not using the company’s service, yet they still send a bill. Please help.

Susan Lavin and James Maile
Cupertino

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