Verizon Communications Inc.

Public Company, Headquarters Location
140 West St., New York, NY 10007-2141, United States
(212)395-1000, http://www.verizon.com

Primary SIC: Telephone Comm Except Radiotelephone, Primary NAICS: Wired Telecommunications Carriers
Description: Verizon Communications Inc., formerly known as Bell Atlantic Corporation, was incorporated in 1983 under the laws of the State of Delaware. The company began doing business as Verizon Communications on June 30, 2000 following a merger with GTE Corporation. Verizon operates under two main business segments: domestic wireless and wireline. The domestic wireless products and services include wireless voice, data, and other value-added services and equipment sales across the United States. Wireline communications services include voice, Internet access, broadband video and data, next generation Internet protocol (IP) network services, network access, long distance and other services. Verizon provides these services to consumers, carriers, businesses and government customers both in the U.S. and internationally in 150 countries. On January 6, 2006, Verizon completed a merger with MCI and incorporated its operations into the wireline business segment. Verizon completed the acquisition of Alltel Corporation (Alltel) on January 9, 2009, making Verizon the largest wireless service provider in the United States in terms of the total number of customers. More

Communications: Telecommunications, wireless communications, cable and Internet services. Manufacturing: Telecommunications equipment.