Verizon looks to sell off its data center business Verizon plans to sell its data center business in a potential $2.5 billion deal, according to Reuters. One source who spoke to Reuters said Verizon’s business center assets include 48 data centers, which currently generate earnings of about $275 million. Despite the fact that Verizon acquired Terremark, a… Read More »
BellTel Retiree – Spring 2016 – Retiree News and Notes – Geezers Luncheon
BellTel Retirees – Spring 2016 – Retiree News and Notes – GTE /Verizon retirees meeting Texas.
On the morning of January 6, 2016, I made my second visit to the GTE/Verizon Breakfast Group in Grapevine, Texas. No, I did not travel from Long Island, New York or from Easton, Maryland. I moved to Frisco, Texas in 2013. The breakfast group meets almost every Wednesday morning at the Waffle Way, 1206 West… Read More »
BellTel Retiree – Spring 2016 – BellTel History of Results for Retirees
In our Winter edition, we looked back at the Association’s earliest years, chronicling our seven founders and their mission to hold our former employers accountable for commitments made in our working years. Over the next five years following that history, the Association truly flourished by winning its first historic proxy campaigns to change Verizon’s bylaws,… Read More »
BellTel Retiree – Spring 2016 – Help from Medicare’s new blue button program
While new technology might seem intimidating at first, it can significantly simplify life for retirees in many ways. For example, there is a new program offered by Medicare called the Blue Button. It allows Medicare recipients to easily download all their Medical claims data for record keeping and includes and a complete list of all… Read More »
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