WIRELESS AND MOBILE NEWS

Although Verizon's landline business was down, it  earned $1.67 billion in its latest quarter, a 31% rise from last year. Verizon Wireless added 1.5 million cell phone customers to bring the total wireless customers to 70.8 million.The mobile division had 12.5 percent increase in total revenues, including a 42.5 percent in data revenues.