On Oct. 6, 2025, Verizon announced that the board of directors had appointed former PayPal CEO Dan Schulman as the company’s new CEO. Schulman previously served as CEO of PayPal from 2015 to 2023 and was the founding CEO of Virgin Mobile USA, a joint venture between Britain’s Virgin Group and Sprint, helping to build… Read More »
Archives for October 2025
“The Bell Effect” Podcast, Episode 37: How Retirees Can Band Together
How can telecom retirees band together to protect their hard-earned pensions and benefits? And how does a qualified charitable distribution work anyway? Our latest episode of “The Bell Effect” podcast introduces you to Laura Whitlock, who has become an active and dynamic volunteer with the Association of BellTel Retirees, serving as a board director of… Read More »
Rebooting Our Podcast “The Bell Effect,” Episode 36: The Fallout from Verizon’s 2024 Pension Deal
We are excited to announce the reboot of “The Bell Effect,” a podcast dedicated to the generations of workers who helped build this country’s great communications infrastructure. In our latest episode, we hear from your Association’s leaders about the fallout from Verizon’s massive 2024 pension risk transfer deal, a $5.9 billion transaction that offloaded the… Read More »
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