The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is investigating the $2 fee that Verizon Wireless will be charging consumers for “convenience.” Verizon was planning on setting up this fee on January 15th to charge people who would be paying for their bill with a credit card through their phone. “On behalf of American consumers, we’re concerned about Verizon’s actions and are looking into the matter,” stated the FCC. [New York Times]

Verizon Wireless has fixed the LTE outage that they suffered from yesterday. The 4G LTE issue was resolved overnight and 3G operated normally. Calling and texting was unaffected. LTE-enabled phones fell back to 3G, which meant that people needed to manually disable LTE to get any data service at all. This is the third time that Verizon suffered from a data outage this month alone. [The Verge]

Looks like it is time for you to set up auto-pay for your Verizon Wireless account because the company is going to start charging consumers a $2 fee when paying by phone or online for your monthly bill. Some of the ways to avoid the fee is by electronic check online, electronic check via call-in, enrollment in autopay using a debit card/credit card/electronic check, gift card or rebate card, Verizon OneBill enrollment, paper check, and paying the bill inside Verizon retail stores. Two dollars is not a big fee, but when you extrapolate that fee across a year, it adds up to $24 which could buy you three meals at Chipotle. [Droid-Life]

The Super Bowl, Pro Bowl, and NBC’s wild-card playoff games will be streamed on the Internet and on mobile devices for the first time announced the NFL yesterday. The games can be streamed online on NBCSports.com and NFL.com through SNF Extra, which has an HD broadcast, DVR-style controls, additional camera angles, highlights, live stats, and other interactive features.

Verizon Wireless customers have seen the second nationwide 4G network outage this month. The outage took place this morning and affected 3G and 4G networks. The service is back up as of right now. Some customers have received a credit for the outage. [Engadget]

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) has dropped the price of the Verizon Galaxy Nexus to $149 when signing up for a new plan. When updating a current plan, the phone will cost $199. This is about $100-$150 off of what Verizon is charging for the phone. This is why Amazon rules the Internet, folks. [Galaxy Nexus on Amazon]

Verizon Wireless will start selling the Samsung Galaxy Nexus tomorrow for $299.99 with a two-year contract. This is the world’s first Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich phone with 4G LTE support. The smartphone has a 4.65-inch 720p HD Super AMOLED display, 1.2GHz dual-core processor, 32GB storage, 1GB RAM, 5-megapixel camera with 1080p HD video recording, and an 1,850 mAh battery. Check out the press release below:

Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ) is rumored to be “very serious” about making a bid on Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) according to sources with Bloomberg. Verizon may end up causing a bidding war, which could potentially result in Netflix being sold for about $4.6 billion by Easter. Netflix currently has a market capitalization of $4.17 billion. Although I cannot imagine Verizon actually buying Netflix, it would be an interesting merger. [Bloomberg]