Verizon has quietly rewritten the rules that once made it relatively painless to take your phone to another carrier. A long ...

Verizon's new Family Line gives you a single shared mobile number. You can share the number across as many as five smartphones. Verizon Family Plus with Family Line costs an extra $10 or $15 a month.

Verizon says it is working to address a large-scale outage that left thousands of wireless phone customers without service on Wednesday.