While plenty of companies offer marketing tactics and sales ploys in order to lure customers, Verizon's free phone deal stands out as particularly appealing.

With the prices of high-end smartphones increasing every year, just about everyone is looking for a good deal. If you can get a phone that typically costs upwards of a thousand dollars for free, even ...

Julie Maestas didn’t know what she was going to do. Maestas, 48, lives at Camp Resolution in North Sacramento and has a Lifeline phone, which are typically free or low-cost from the government. The ...

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has closely followed state regulators’ concerns about the Lifeline program since they emerged last year. Critics on the Public Service Commission began discussing ...

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