Verizon Communications Inc., the global provider of communications, technology, information, and entertainment products and services, has been catering to consumers, businesses, and governmental entities for decades. The US-based company, which operates through subsidiaries, functions in two segments: Verizon Consumer Group (Consumer) and Verizon Business Group (Business). The Consumer segment provides wireless services across the wireless networks in the United States, under the Verizon and TracFone brands, along with wholesale and other arrangements. Additionally, the segment offers fixed wireless access (FWA) broadband through wireless networks, as well as wireline services across the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern United States, and in Washington D.C., through its fiber-optic network, Verizon Fios product portfolio, and a copper-based network. On the other hand, the Business segment caters to a wide range of wireless and wireline communication services and products such as data, video, conferencing, corporate networking, security and managed network, local and long-distance voice, network access, and various IoT services and products. The company also provides FWA broadband through wireless networks. Verizon Communications was formerly known as Bell Atlantic Corporation but changed its name to Verizon Communications Inc. in 2000. The company was incorporated in 1983 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
Verizon's ticker is VZ
The company's shares trade on the NYSE stock exchange
They are based in Basking Ridge, New Jersey
There are 10,000+ employees working at Verizon
It is verizon.com/about
Verizon is in the Technology sector
Verizon is in the Telecom Services - Domestic industry
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