Verizon Communications Inc.

Company type	Cross-listed Public company
Traded as	NYSE: VZ NASDAQ: VZ[1] Dow Jones Industrial Average Component S&P 500 Component
Industry	Telecommunications
Predecessor	American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Founded	October 7, 1983 (as Bell Atlantic)[2]
Headquarters	Verizon Building New York City, United States
Key people	Lowell McAdam (Chairman, President and CEO)
Services	Fixed-line and mobile telephony, broadband and fixed-line internet services, digital television and network services
Revenue	US$ 110.8 billion (2011)[3]
Operating income	US$ 18.8 billion (2011)[3]
Net income	US$ 2.4 billion (2011)[3]
Total assets	US$ 230.4 billion (2011)[3]
Total equity	US$ 85.9 billion (2011)[3]
Number of employees	162,000 (2016)[3]
Divisions	Verizon New England Verizon New York Verizon Delaware Verizon New Jersey Verizon Pennsylvania Verizon North Verizon Maryland Verizon Washington, D.C. Verizon Virginia Verizon California
Subsidiaries	AT&T GTE MCI Inc. NYNEX Diamond State Telephone New Jersey Bell Bell of Pennsylvania Verizon North The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company Verizon California Terremark Vodafone Italy (23.14%)
Website	www.verizon.com

Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ),^[1] is a telephone, internet service provider, and television company in the United States. It also owns a mobile phone company, Verizon Wireless. Verizon was created in 2000 by merging GTE and Bell Atlantic. These companies had already absorbed other companies, some of them more than a hundred years old. The biggest ones were formerly owned by AT&T.

In 2015, Verizon bought the Internet company AOL, and the next year it bought Yahoo!. Both of these purchases were for about US$4.4 billion.^[4] Today, both AOL and Yahoo! are part of a subsidiary created by Verizon called Oath Inc.^[5]

Verizon is one of the few publicly-traded companies to have a stock on both the NYSE and the NASDAQ. Its NYSE listing has been one of the 30 companies in the Dow Jones Industrial Average since 2004.^[6]

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