Verizon
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| Type: | Publicly held |
| Industry: | Telecommunications |
| Founded: | 2000 |
| Founder(s): | Charles R. Lee Ivan R. Seidenberg |
| Headquarters: | New York |
| Country: | USA |
| Businesses: | Wireless & Wireline |
| Employees: | 194,000 |
| Revenue: | $106.6 billion operating 2010 [1] |
| Website: | Vsrizon |
| Facebook: | Verizon |
| LinkedIn: | Verizon |
| Twitter: |  @Verizon
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| Key People | |
| Ivan G. Seidenberg, Chairman and CEO Lowell C. Mc Adam, President and COO | |
Verizon Communications, Inc. (Verizon) is a telecommunications and broadband provider serving more than 104 million connection in the United States. The company employs more than 196 thousand workers and generated $106.6 million in 2010. It's headquarters is located in New York.[2]
History
Verizon was incorporated in Delaware after the merger of Bell Atlantic Corporation and GTE Corp. making it the second largest telecommunications company and the largest wireless provider with more than 260,000 employees on June 30, 2000.The newly formed company was headed by Charles Lee, Verizon chairman and co-chief executive officer, and Ivan Seidenberg, Verizon president and co-CEO.