Verizon

Verizon Communications Inc. (), 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. In 2017, both AOL and Yahoo! were part of a subsidiary created by Verizon called Oath Inc.

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.

 Verizon Consumer 
Verizon's consumer wireless unit offers mobile phone, home telephone, and Internet services through a variety of devices.

 Wireless phone services 
Verizon Wireless offers smartphones using Apple's iOS and Google's Android. Both its basic phones and smartphones use their 4G LTE or 5G network. The company offers different voice and data plans for its users.

In 2019, Verizon offered one year of access to then ad-free Disney+ included in some of its unlimited plans as part of the launch of the streaming service. In 2020, the deal was expanded and extended to include access to the bundle of ad-supported Hulu and ESPN+ as part of some unlimited plans.  

In 2023, Verizon changed its plan offerings, with access to the Disney+ bundle and other services such as Apple Music no longer automatically included in its new plans, but available instead as add-on perks at a reduced price. 

In 2022, Verizon began testing a service called +play where customers could sign up for a range of streaming and other subscription services, officially rolling it out in 2023 with various discount deals.

Verizon shut down the +play service in 2025 to focus on making some subscription services available as add-ons to its wireless plans. The same year Verizon also removed access to Google Play Pass and Apple Arcade that had been included in some older plans.

 Wireless home phone 
Introduced in February 2015 as Verizon Wireless Home Phone Connect, Wireless Home Phone uses Verizon's cellular network rather than using traditional landline wires to provide home phone service.

 Mobile broadband and Wi-Fi 
Verizon Mobile network, branded as Jetpack. The company offered home Internet service through a 4G LTE Broadband Router with Voice that can connect up to 10 devices over Wi-Fi as well as home phone service. This service and device have since been discontinued.

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Category:Telecommunications
Category:American internet service providers
Category:American telephone companies
Category:American television providers
Category:Companies based in New York City
Category:1983 establishments in the United States