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Verizon Communications Inc. (/ v ə ˈ r aɪ z ən / və-RY-zən), is an American telecommunications company headquartered in New York City. [3] It is the world's second-largest telecommunications company by revenue and its mobile network is the largest wireless carrier in the United States, with 146 million subscribers as of December 31, 2024.
Verizon is an American wireless network operator that previously operated as a separate division of Verizon Communications under the name Verizon Wireless.In a 2019 reorganization, Verizon moved the wireless products and services into the divisions Verizon Consumer and Verizon Business, and stopped using the Verizon Wireless name.
Verizon formerly served ex-GTE areas in parts of California, Florida and Texas before selling to Frontier Communications in 2016. Claro Puerto Rico , which serves every exchange in Puerto Rico, has been owned by the international telecommunications giant América Móvil since in 2007.
In 1997, NYNEX was acquired by Bell Atlantic (taking the Bell Atlantic name), which later, in 2000, acquired GTE, the largest independent telephone company. Bell Atlantic later changed its name to Verizon that same year. In 2005, following a protracted bidding war with rival RBOC Qwest, Verizon announced that it would acquire long-distance ...
Frontier Communications owns local telephone operating companies consisting of companies it has owned under its previous name Citizens Communications Company, companies it acquired from Global Crossing, and companies it acquired from Verizon Communications which are grouped under its subsidiary Frontier Communications ILEC Holdings. The ...
Ivan Seidenberg (born December 10, 1946) is the former chairman and CEO of Verizon Communications Inc. . His telecommunications career began more than 40 years ago when he joined New York Telephone, one of Verizon's predecessor companies, as a cable splicer.
On August 15, 1997, NYNEX was acquired by Bell Atlantic, who kept the Bell Atlantic name. On June 30, 2000, Bell Atlantic acquired GTE to form the current Verizon Communications, with the corporate headquarters remaining the same 1095 Avenue of the Americas location until 2006 when HQ returned to 140 West Street.
The company operated from 1926, with roots tracing further back than that, until 2000, when it was acquired by Bell Atlantic, which changed its name to Verizon. The Wisconsin -based Associated Telephone Utilities Company was founded in 1926; it went bankrupt in 1933 during the Great Depression , and was reorganized as General Telephone in 1934 ...