Verizon Communications

The Verizon Communications Inc. [ vəɹaɪzən ], or shortly Verizon, is a US-based telecommunications company with headquarters in New York.

History

Verizon Communications grew out of a collaboration between Bell Atlantic and GTE. The company employs 235,000 workers (as of 2007 ).

Verizon Wireless, which was created as a joint venture between Verizon and Vodafone, is now the largest mobile provider in the U.S.. Headquarters is the former AT & T headquarters in Basking Ridge, New Jersey. Verizon Communications owns the majority of Verizon Wireless.

Verizon has the MCI Worldcom Group for 6.75 billion U.S. dollars ( 5.2 billion euros ) bought in 2005.

Under the name Verizon Business Verizon offers in Europe to exclusively service for business and government customers. The German subsidiary (Verizon Germany GmbH ) has its official headquarters in Dortmund.

In 2007, Verizon has made ​​sales of $ 93.4 billion, with a profit of 5.5 billion U.S. dollars.

On 21 November 2008 reported the news station CNN that employees of the mobile service provider Verizon Wireless have illegally gained access to the mobile phone data of the then "President -Elect " Barack Obama in recent months. The records were spied with telephone number and date of payments made by Obama calls.

Network structure

Verizon operates among others, both within Europe submarine cable Ulysses Ulysses 1 and 2 fiber optic cables connect IJmuiden in the Netherlands with Lowestoft in Great Britain and the French Calais with the British Dover.