The table above (click on image for full-screen view) presents the 40 active component stocks among 99 total companies included in my Foreign Telco Services BULLISHares Index. All such companies must have market caps greater than $1 billion US Dollars and derive the majority of their revenues from telco services [...]

The unions representing 65,000 Verizon workers on Saturday resounded a pledge to strike if demands for higher wages, caps on health care payments and limits on outsourcing jobs are not honored.[...]

Several thousand workers will rally outside Verizon headquarters Saturday to demand a "fair contract" as labor negotiations race an Aug. 2 deadline.[...]

Golf San Antonio has been given a $100,000 donation by AT&T Inc. to support its golf and life skills program. (T)[...]

The Federal Communications Commission Friday night denied Qwest Communications Inc. (NYSE:Q) the ability to charge higher rates to companies that use its lines to provide their own service. (Q)[...]

-- According to Google, there are 1 trillion unique URLs out there. [Google Blog]-- Could Google's Android open-source mobile operating system eventually merge with Symbian, Nokia's open-source mobile operating system? [InformationWeek]-- AT&T is trying to delay Sprint's WiMAX merger with Craig McCaw's Clearwire. [Ars Technica]-- Think you're an internet star? [...]