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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 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.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
In a news release dated February 22, 2016, Verizon announced plans to acquire XO Communications' "fiber-optic network business." [3] [4] In 2017, Verizon completed its $1.8 billion acquisition of XO Communications. [5] [6] As of summer 2020 all XO services have been migrated to Verizon.
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.
Previously, he was the CEO [2] of AOL Inc. from 2009 until its purchase by Verizon in 2015. Armstrong began his career in journalism, becoming known for his online advertising sales in the 1990s. He was appointed marketing director for Seattle -based online entertainment-and-news portal Starwave , which was acquired by Disney in 1998.