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Verizon

telecommunications

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Is Verizon Ethical?

Verizon is not ethical

Verizon is a US telecommunications company that has committed tax avoidance ^[1], overcharged customers ^[2], sold customer data without consent ^[3]^[4], illegally shared customers' location data ^[5], leaked customer data in a data breach ^[6], and committed environmental violations ^[7]. Verizon has collaborated with NSA to spy on phone calls of millions of people ^[8], and has several billion in US military contracts ^[9].

Alternatives to Verizon

Send your message and feel good about where you shop. These companies are alternatives to Verizon.

15 alternative companies tagged: telecommunications

Zoom

tech

42 😐

Zoom is an American video‑conferencing platform that published terms of service permitting the company to train artificial intelligence on user data [1]. It has illegally shared user data with large technology firms [2][3] and, at the behest of the Chinese government, suspended the accounts of human‑rights activists discussing the 1989 Tiananmen Square incident [4][5].

Three

telecommunications

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Three is owned by Vodafone.

Vodafone

telecommunications

38 😡

Vodafone is a British telecommunications company that has engaged in tax avoidance [1][2][3], overcharged customers [4] and violated consumer protection laws [5], while pursuing monopolistic anticompetitive practices [6] and exploitative marketing to consumers [7]. The firm has mistreated store staff [8], discriminated against disabled employees [9], suppressed internet access during the Arab Spring to silence protesters [10][11], and participated in state surveillance [12].

O2

telecommunications

34 😡

O2 is jointly owned by liberty-global and Telefonica.

Telefonica

telecommunications

34 😡

Telefonica is a Spanish telecommunications company that has been involved in bribery [1][2] and has faced allegations of disability discrimination against employees [3]. Employees have also suffered sexual harassment at the company [4][5].

Telxius

telecommunications

34 😡

Telxius is owned by Telefonica.

Virgin Media

telecommunications

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Virgin Media is owned by O2.

Orange

telecommunications

25 😡

Orange is a French telecommunications company that has been accused of restricting access to file sharing sites [1], false advertising [2], and violations of open access licences [3][4]. The company has also faced allegations of anticompetitive monopolistic practices [5], customer privacy violations [6], corruption [7], and poor working conditions leading to suicides [8][9][10].

Globecast

telecommunications

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Globecast is owned by Orange.

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BT

telecommunications

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BT is a British telecommunications company that supplied military infrastructure used in drone strikes in Yemen and Somalia [1], overcharged customers by £600 million and concealed information about those overcharges [2][3][4], and engaged in price‑fixing schemes that underpaid freelancers [5]. It has also been responsible for failures that crippled the UK's emergency call handling system [6] and for unsafe working conditions that contributed to a technician's death due to lack of training [7].

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