EX-4.8



 Exhibit 4.8 

THE SECURITY (OR ITS PREDECESSOR) EVIDENCED HEREBY WAS ORIGINALLY ISSUED IN A TRANSACTION EXEMPT FROM REGISTRATION UNDER SECTION 5 OF THE UNITED STATES
SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND THE SECURITY EVIDENCED HEREBY MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR AN APPLICABLE EXEMPTION THEREFROM. 

THE FOREGOING LEGEND MAY BE REMOVED FROM THIS SECURITY AFTER 40 DAYS BEGINNING ON AND INCLUDING THE LATER OF (A) THE DATE ON WHICH THE SECURITIES ARE
OFFERED TO PERSONS OTHER THAN DISTRIBUTORS (AS DEFINED IN REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) AND (B) AUGUST 21, 2014. 
 BY ITS ACQUISITION OF THIS
SECURITY THE HOLDER THEREOF WILL BE DEEMED TO HAVE REPRESENTED AND WARRANTED THAT EITHER (I) NO PORTION OF THE ASSETS USED BY SUCH HOLDER TO ACQUIRE OR HOLD THIS SECURITY CONSTITUTES THE ASSETS OF AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN THAT IS SUBJECT TO
TITLE I OF THE U.S. EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY ACT OF 1974, AS AMENDED (“ERISA”), OF A PLAN, INDIVIDUAL RETIREMENT ACCOUNT OR OTHER ARRANGEMENT THAT IS SUBJECT TO SECTION 4975 OF THE U.S. INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986, AS AMENDED
(THE “CODE”), OR PROVISIONS UNDER ANY OTHER FEDERAL, STATE, LOCAL, NON-U.S. OR OTHER LAWS OR REGULATIONS THAT ARE SIMILAR TO SUCH PROVISIONS OF ERISA OR THE CODE (“SIMILAR LAWS”), OR OF AN ENTITY WHOSE UNDERLYING ASSETS ARE
CONSIDERED TO INCLUDE “PLAN ASSETS” OF ANY SUCH PLAN, ACCOUNT OR ARRANGEMENT, OR (II) THE ACQUISITION AND HOLDING OF THIS SECURITY WILL NOT CONSTITUTE OR GIVE RISE TO A NON-EXEMPT PROHIBITED TRANSACTION UNDER SECTION 406 OF ERISA OR
SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE OR A VIOLATION UNDER ANY APPLICABLE SIMILAR LAWS. 
 UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE
DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), NEW YORK, NEW YORK, TO THE COMPANY OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN
SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR
VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN. 
 TRANSFERS OF
THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS IN WHOLE, BUT NOT IN PART, TO NOMINEES OF DTC OR TO A SUCCESSOR THEREOF OR SUCH SUCCESSOR’S NOMINEE AND TRANSFERS OF PORTIONS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS MADE IN
ACCORDANCE WITH THE RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH IN THE INDENTURE REFERRED TO ON THE REVERSE HEREOF. 
  

			
	No.     	  	[ • ]

 as revised by the Schedule of Increases and 

Decreases in Global Debt Security attached hereto 

CUSIP No: U9221A AG3 
 ISIN No: USU9221AAG32 

Common Code: 109330809 
 Verizon Communications
Inc. 
 4.862% Notes due 2046 
 Verizon
Communications Inc., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (herein referred to as the “Company”), for value received, hereby promises to pay to Cede & Co. or registered assigns, the
principal sum of                     Dollars ($         ), as revised by the Schedule of Increases and
Decreases in Global Debt Security attached hereto, on August 21, 2046, to pay interest on said principal sum from August 21, 2014, or from the most recent interest payment date to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, and to
pay the Additional Interest, if any, as defined in and payable pursuant to Section 5 of the Registration Rights Agreement referred to below. Interest and Additional Interest, if any, will be payable semiannually on February 21 and
August 21 of each year, commencing February 21, 2015. Interest will accrue at the rate of 4.862% per annum until the principal hereof shall have become due and payable, and on any overdue principal and (to the extent that payment of
such interest is enforceable under applicable law) on any overdue installment of interest and Additional Interest, if any, at the same rate per annum. 







 The interest installment and Additional Interest, if any, so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for,
on any interest payment date will, as provided in the Indenture hereinafter referred to, be paid to the person in whose name this Debt Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities, as defined in said Indenture) is registered at the close of
business on the regular record date for such interest installment, which shall be the February 7 or August 7, as the case may be (whether or not a Business Day), next preceding such interest payment date. However, interest and Additional
Interest, if any, that the Company pays on the maturity date shall be payable to the person to whom the principal hereof shall be payable. Any such interest installment and Additional Interest, if any, not so punctually paid or duly provided for
shall forthwith cease to be payable to the registered holder on such regular record date, and may be paid to the person in whose name this Debt Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on a special
record date to be fixed by the Trustee for the payment of such defaulted interest, notice of which shall be given to the registered holders of this series of Debt Securities as provided in the Indenture, or may be paid at any time in any other
lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Debt Securities may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided in the Indenture hereinafter referred
to. The principal of and the interest and Additional Interest, if any, on this Debt Security shall be payable at the office or agency of the Company maintained for that purpose in the City of New York, State of New York in any coin or currency of
the United States of America which at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts; provided, however, that payment of interest and Additional Interest, if any, may be made at the option of the Company by check mailed
to the registered holder at such address as shall appear in the Security Register. This Debt Security shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture hereinafter referred to, or be valid or become obligatory for any purpose, until the
Certificate of Authentication hereon shall have been signed by or on behalf of the Trustee. 
 The provisions of this Debt Security are continued on the
reverse side hereof and such continued provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as though fully set forth at this place. 

  
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 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be executed. 

 

							
	Dated: August 21, 2014	 		 	VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC.
				
		 		 	By	 	  

		 		 		 	Name:
		 		 		 	Title:








 CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION 

This is one of the Securities of the series designated herein referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture. 

U.S. Bank National Association 
 as
Trustee, Authenticating Agent and Security Registrar 
  

			
	By	 	  

	Authorized Signatory

 Dated: August 21, 2014 







 (FORM OF REVERSE OF DEBT SECURITY) 

This Debt Security is one of a duly authorized series of Debt Securities of the Company (herein sometimes referred to as the “Securities”), all
issued or to be issued in one or more series under and pursuant to an Indenture dated as of December 1, 2000, duly executed and delivered by the Company, as successor in interest to Verizon Global Funding Corp. and U.S. Bank National
Association, as successor to Wachovia Bank, National Association, formerly known as First Union National Bank (hereinafter referred to as the “Trustee”), as amended and supplemented (the “Indenture”), to which Indenture reference
is hereby made for a description of the rights, limitation of rights, obligations, duties and immunities thereunder of the Trustee, the Company and the holders of the Securities. By the terms of the Indenture, the Securities are issuable in series
which may vary as to amount, date of maturity, rate of interest and in other respects as in the Indenture provided. This Debt Security is one of the series designated on the face hereof (herein called the “Debt Securities”) unlimited in
aggregate principal amount. 
 Beneficial interests in this global Debt Security may be held in minimum denominations of $2,000 and integral multiples of
$1,000 in excess of $2,000. This global Debt Security shall be exchangeable for Debt Securities in definitive form registered in the names of persons other than the Depository or its nominee only if (i) the Depository notifies the Company that
it is unwilling or unable to continue as the Depository or if at any time such Depository is no longer registered or in good standing under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or other applicable statute and a successor depository is not appointed
by the Company within 90 days or (ii) the Company executes and delivers to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate that the global Debt Security shall be so exchangeable. To the extent that the global Debt Security is exchangeable pursuant to
the preceding sentence, it shall be exchangeable for Debt Securities registered in such names as the Depository shall direct. Debt Securities represented by this global Debt Security that may be exchanged for Debt Securities in definitive form under
the circumstances described in this paragraph will be exchangeable only for Debt Securities in definitive form issued in minimum denominations of $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess of $2,000. Notwithstanding any other provision
herein, this global Debt Security may not be transferred except as a whole by the Depository to a nominee of such Depository or by a nominee of such Depository to such Depository or another nominee of such Depository. 

In case an Event of Default, as defined in the Indenture, with respect to the Debt Securities shall have occurred and be continuing, the principal of all of
the Debt Securities may be declared, and upon such declaration shall become, due and payable, in the manner, with the effect and subject to the conditions provided in the Indenture. 

The Indenture contains provisions permitting the Company and the Trustee, with the consent of the holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal
amount of the Securities of each series affected at the time outstanding, as defined in the Indenture, to execute supplemental indentures for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of
the Indenture or of any supplemental indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the holders of the Securities; provided, however, that no such supplemental indenture shall, among other things, (i) extend the fixed maturity of any
Securities of any series, or reduce the principal amount thereof, or reduce the rate or extend the time of payment of interest and Additional Interest, if any, thereon, or reduce any premium payable upon the redemption thereof, without the consent
of the holder of each Debt Security so affected or (ii) reduce the aforesaid percentage of Debt Securities, the holders of which are required to consent to any such supplemental indenture, without the consent of the holders of each Debt
Security then outstanding and affected thereby. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities of any series at the time outstanding, on behalf of the holders of Securities
of such series, to waive any past default in the performance of any of the covenants contained in the Indenture, or established pursuant to the Indenture with respect to such series, and its consequences, except a default in the payment of the
principal of, or premium, if any, or interest or Additional Interest, if any, on any of the Securities of such series. Any such consent or waiver by the registered holder of this Debt Security (unless revoked as provided in the Indenture) shall be
conclusive and binding upon such holder and upon all future holders and owners of this Debt Security and of any Debt Security issued in exchange herefor or in place hereof (whether by registration of transfer or otherwise), irrespective of whether
or not any notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Debt Security. 
 No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Debt
Security or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and interest and Additional Interest, if any, on this Debt Security at the times and place and at the rate
and in the money herein prescribed. 
 The Debt Securities are issuable as registered Debt Securities without coupons. 

The Debt Securities shall be in minimum denominations of $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess of $2,000. Debt Securities may be exchanged, upon
presentation thereof for that purpose, at the office or agency of the Company in the City of New York, State of New York, for other Debt Securities of authorized denominations, and for a like aggregate principal amount and series, and upon payment
of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge in relation thereto. 
 The Debt Securities may be redeemed on not less than 30 nor more
than 60 days’ prior notice given as provided in the Indenture, in whole or from time to time in part, at any time prior to maturity at the option of the Company, at a redemption price equal to the greater of (i) 100% of the principal
amount thereof, or (ii) the sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments 







 
of principal and interest thereon (exclusive of interest accrued and Additional Interest, if any, to the date of redemption) discounted to the date of redemption on a semiannual basis (assuming a
360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Treasury Rate plus 25 basis points, plus, in either case, accrued and unpaid interest and Additional Interest, if any, on the principal amount being redeemed to, but excluding, such redemption
date. 
 “Treasury Rate” means, with respect to any redemption date, (i) the yield, under the heading which represents the average for the
immediately preceding week, appearing in the most recently published statistical release published by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System designated as “Statistical Release H. 15(519)” or any successor publication which is
published weekly by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and which establishes yields on actively traded United States Treasury securities adjusted to constant maturity under the caption “Treasury Constant Maturities,” for
the maturity corresponding to the Comparable Treasury Issue (if no maturity is within three months before or after the Remaining Life, yields for the two published maturities most closely corresponding to the Comparable Treasury Issue will be
determined and the Treasury Rate shall be interpolated or extrapolated from those yields on a straight-line basis, rounding to the nearest month), or (ii) if such release (or any successor release) is not published during the week preceding the
calculation date or does not contain such yields, the rate per annum equal to the semiannual equivalent yield to maturity of the Comparable Treasury Issue, calculated using a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its
principal amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for the redemption date. 
 “Business Day” means any calendar day that is not a Saturday
or a Sunday or legal holiday in New York, New York and on which commercial banks are open for business in New York, New York. 
 “Comparable Treasury
Issue” means the United States Treasury security selected by the Independent Investment Banker as having a maturity comparable to the remaining term (the “Remaining Life”) of the Debt Securities to be redeemed that would be utilized,
at the time of selection and in accordance with customary financial practice, in pricing new issues of corporate debt securities of comparable maturity to the remaining term of such Debt Security. 

“Independent Investment Banker” means an independent investment banking or commercial banking institution of national standing appointed by the
Company. 
 “Comparable Treasury Price” means (i) the average of three Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such redemption date, or
(ii) if the Independent Investment Banker is unable to obtain three Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, the average of all quotations obtained. 

“Reference Treasury Dealer” means (i) any independent investment banking or commercial banking institution of national standing and any of its
successors appointed by the Company and any of its successors, provided, however, that if any of the foregoing shall cease to be a primary U.S. Government securities dealer in the United States, referred to as a Primary Treasury Dealer, the Company
shall substitute therefor another Primary Treasury Dealer, and (ii) any other Primary Treasury Dealer selected by the Independent Investment Banker and approved in writing by the Company. 

“Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations” means, with respect to each Reference Treasury Dealer and any redemption date, the average, as determined by
the Independent Investment Banker, of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount) quoted in writing to the Independent Investment Banker at 3:30 p.m., New York City
time, on the third Business Day preceding such redemption date. In the event of redemption of this Debt Security in part only, a new Debt Security of like tenor for the unredeemed portion hereof and otherwise having the same terms as this Debt
Security shall be issued in the name of the holder hereof upon the presentation and surrender hereof. 
 As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain
limitations therein set forth, this Debt Security is transferable by the registered holder hereof on the Security Register of the Company, upon surrender of this Debt Security for registration of transfer at the office or agency of the Company in
the City of New York, State of New York accompanied by a written instrument or instruments of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company or the Security Registrar duly executed by the registered holder hereof or his attorney duly authorized in
writing, and thereupon one or more new Debt Securities of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount and series will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees. No service charge will be made for any such
transfer, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in relation thereto. 
 Prior to due
presentment for registration of transfer of this Debt Security, the Company, the Trustee, any paying agent and any Security Registrar for the Debt Securities may deem and treat the registered holder hereof as the absolute owner hereof (whether or
not this Debt Security shall be overdue and notwithstanding any notice of ownership or writing hereon made by anyone other than the Security Registrar for the Debt Securities) for the purpose of receiving payment of or on account of the principal
hereof and (subject to Section 310 of the Indenture) interest and Additional Interest, if any, due hereon and for all other purposes, and neither the Company nor the Trustee nor any paying agent nor any Security Registrar for the Debt
Securities shall be affected by any notice to the contrary. 

  
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 No recourse shall be had for the payment of the principal of or the interest and Additional Interest, if any, on
this Debt Security, or for any claim based hereon, or otherwise in respect hereof, or based on or in respect of the Indenture, against any incorporator, stockholder, officer or director, past, present or future, as such, of the Company or of any
predecessor or successor corporation, whether by virtue of any constitution, statute or rule of law, or by the enforcement of any assessment or penalty or otherwise, all such liability being, by the acceptance hereof and as part of the consideration
for the issuance hereof, expressly waived and released. 
 The Depository by acceptance of this global Debt Security agrees that it will not sell, assign,
transfer or otherwise convey any beneficial interest in this global Debt Security unless such beneficial interest is in an amount equal to an authorized denomination for Debt Securities of this series. 

Holders of the Debt Securities issued on the date hereof will have all the rights set forth in the Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of August 21,
2014, among the Company and the other parties named in Schedule A thereto (the “Registration Rights Agreement”). The Company will furnish to any holder of Debt Securities upon request and without charge a copy of the Registration Rights
Agreement. 
 Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined herein shall have the respective meanings set forth in the Indenture. 

  
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 SCHEDULE OF INCREASES OR DECREASES IN GLOBAL DEBT SECURITY 

The following increases or decreases in this global Debt Security have been made: 

 

									
	 Date of

Exchange
	 	 Amount of decrease in
principal amount of this
global Debt
Security
	 	 Amount of increase
in
principal amount of this
global Debt Security
	 	 Principal amount of this

global Debt Security following
such decrease or increase
	 	 Signature of authorized
signatory of
Trustee



  
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