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Re:Transforming NYC's Payphones into a 'Personalized Propaga... by shostack on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @12:09PM (#12087315)
Sorry to break it to you, but Verizon certainly sells data. Check out their data membership with AOL (pretty sure it's them ) to help close the cross device tracking gap.

Telcos are very aggressive about monetizing their data.

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Re:Transforming NYC's Payphones into a 'Personalized Propaga... by shostack on Wednesday July 13, 2016 @04:07PM (#12089234)
Lost the window to edit, but here's more info on the Verizon/AOL data deal:

http://adage.com/article/datadriven-marketing/verizon-aol-pa...

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