Verizon has moved into Chicago and begun competing with SBC for medium-to-large business customers there, marking the first time one of the former Baby Bells has competed directly with another in any market.

Mississippi Public Service Commissioner Mike Callahan said Wednesday that he wants hearings into BellSouth’s handling of repairs after Hurricane Katrina.

A federal judge in Boston on Monday granted an injunction against Boston Communications Group, Inc., which provides customer management solutions for prepaid wireless companies. The injunction says that companies using BCGI’s solutions for their prepaid wireless programs, including Cingular Wireless, must stop accepting new customers and shut down their services within 90 days.

Verizon has received the first Quills Corporate Literacy Award in recognition of the company’s support of literacy programs throughout the United States.

The state of Missouri is now tracking individual cell phones as their users travel the state’s highways in a program costing the state’s taxpayers $3 million per year.

The Verizon One integrates a DSL modem, 802.11g wireless router, 5.8 Ghz cordless phone, color-touch screen, Super Pages features and more. It is one of this year’s recipients of a Frost and Sullivan Product Innovation Award and will be featured this weekend at the Digital Life Expo, a consumer electronics show in New York City.

BellSouth has released new damage report data which indicates over 182,000 customer lines are out of service due to damage from Hurricane Katrina and storm surge from Hurricane Rita.

Researchers at the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland have developed a prototype wireless phone which identifies its owner by the way he or she walks, also known as gait analysis.

Palm, Inc., will replace the SIM tray on some Treo 650 smartphones being offered by Cingular Wireless. The defective SIM tray can cause the device to reset or the radio to turn off when the phone is bumped or jarred.

While major wireless carriers report that service in New Orleans has been restored to “normal or near-normal” conditions, owners of wireless phones with New Orleans (504) telephone numbers tell a different story.