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Verizon Not Responsible for Customers Tethering Woes, FCC Bureau Finds

The FCC Enforcement Bureau denied a complaint by a customer who alleged that Verizon violated the rules attached to its 700 MHz C-block licenses by causing the tethering application on his handset to stop functioning. Edward Ryan alleged that following…

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a 2013 network update by Verizon he could no longer tether with his Motorola Moto X phone using the FoxFi application, the bureau said. “We find that the record contains no evidence that Verizon took any action causing Ryan’s difficulties” and “we deny Ryan’s complaint,” said a Tuesday order in docket 14-219. Ryan couldn’t be reached for comment.