On February 14, 2005, Verizon Communications agreed to acquire MCI for $ 7. 6 billion.

On February 16, 2012, Verizon announced that it will drop FUNimation Channel from its Verizon FiOS service " on, or after March 15 " due to " very low viewership ".

On June 19, 2006, Verizon filed a lawsuit charging that Vonage infringed on five of Verizon's patents related to its VoIP service.

On March 8, 2007 a jury found Vonage guilty of infringing three patents held by Verizon, and not guilty of infringing two other patents.

On November 19, 2007 Vonage agreed to pay ~$ 120 million in damages to Verizon.

On February 14, 2005, Verizon agreed to acquire MCI, formerly WorldCom, after SBC Communications agreed to acquire AT & T Corp. just a few weeks earlier.

On June 30, 2000, Bell Atlantic acquired GTE to form Verizon Communications.

On June 10, 2010, following Pollin's death in November 2009, the Pollin family sold Verizon Center, along with the Washington Wizards and the Washington-Baltimore area Ticketmaster franchise to Ted Leonsis, who already owned the arena's other tenant, the Washington Capitals professional hockey team.

On Leonsis ' authorization, the final remaining attendance banners were removed from the Verizon Center rafters in 2010.

On Saturday August 13, 2011, Dropkick Murphys issued a statement of solidarity with the 45, 000 Communications Workers of America ( CWA ) and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers ( IBEW ) on strike from Verizon Communications, Inc.

As of September 2006, Logo features select programming content on the Video On Demand platform on Comcast, Cox, Time Warner Cable, and Verizon cable providers.

On 7 December 2007, a case was brought against Verizon Communications over its distribution of firmware for Actiontec routers ; this case was settled March 17, 2008 on condition of license compliance, appointment of an officer to oversee future compliance with free software licenses, and payment of an undisclosed sum.

On November 2, 2008, Verizon Yahoo!

On December 26, 2005, he played his first game at the Washington Wizards ' MCI Center ( now known as Verizon Center ) as a Laker.

In March 2011, Starz On Demand launched a third VOD service ( in addition to its standard definition and high definition VOD services ), offering movies presented in 3D to customers of Comcast and Verizon FiOS at no additional charge.

On February 14, 2005, Verizon agreed to acquire MCI, formerly WorldCom, after SBC Communications agreed to acquire AT & T Corp. just a few weeks earlier.

On December 19, 2011, GM said OnStar would join with Verizon Wireless to offer video chat and streaming content to automobile passengers.

On December 24, 2009, it was revealed that Arenas had admitted to storing unloaded firearms in his locker at Verizon Center and had surrendered them to team security.

On December 7, 2007 SFLC filed a lawsuit against Verizon Communications, Inc. alleging that Verizon had violated GPLv2 by distributing BusyBox in the Actiontec MI424WR MoCA wireless routers bundled with the FiOS fiber optic bandwidth service, without providing corresponding source code.

On October 14, 2008 Ivan Seidenberg stated as reported in the WSJ: " Verizon CEO No Bailout for Me, Thanks ," Seidenberg clearly indicated that Verizon was in great shape and would not take any TARP money.

On December 29, at a WWE live event at the Verizon Wireless Arena in Manchester, New Hampshire, Melina tore her ACL during a six-woman tag team match ; she relinquished the Divas Championship on January 4 due to her injury.

On cable, WFTS ( now the area's primary ABC affiliate after a market realignment triggered by the Fox Network's purchase of WTVT ) was not carried south of the Sarasota area while WWSB was not largely available on cable north of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge until Verizon FiOS added WWSB to all of its area lineups.

On cable, WTOG can be seen throughout the Tampa Bay area on Bright House and Verizon FiOS channel 4, and on Comcast channel 9 in the Sarasota and Venice headends.

On cable, WMOR can be seen on channel 12 on Bright House Networks ( channel 10 in North Pinellas County, due to WTSP broadcasting on channel 10 ), Verizon FiOS, and Comcast Venice ; and on channel 4 on Comcast Sarasota.

On WGAL-DT2, Comcast digital channel 248, and Verizon FiOS digital channel 460 is This TV.

On March 19, 1991 the Supreme Council passed a law explicitly guaranteeing " equal rights to all nationalities and ethnic groups " and " guarantees to all permanent residents in the Republic regardless of their nationality, equal rights to work and wages.

On 27 November 2003, the Dutch Justice Minister Piet Hein Donner announced that his government was considering rules under which coffeeshops would only be allowed to sell soft drugs to Dutch residents in order to satisfy both European neighbors ' concerns about the influx of drugs from the Netherlands, as well as those of Netherlands border town residents unhappy with the influx of " drug tourists " from elsewhere in Europe.

On Boxing Day and New Year's Day, it is a tradition for some residents to don blackface and parade through the town singing ' minstrel ' songs.

: Irish and German-American indigent immigrants, temporarily interned at Wards Island by the Commissioners of Emigration, begin rioting following an altercation between two residents resulting in thirty men seriously wounded and around sixty arrested .< ref > Riot On Ward's Island.

On the Isle of Portland in Dorset, UK, the rabbit is said to be unlucky and speaking its name can cause upset with older residents.

On warm summer nights, the residents living around Mobile Bay sometimes enjoy the fruits of a mysterious natural phenomenon called a Jubilee, when fish and crabs swarm toward shore and can be easily harvested by people wading in the shallows.

On the other hand, residents of Harbor Island were happy to serve as middlemen for the pirates, as merchants from New England and Virginia came there to exchange needed supplies for pirate plunder.

On February 1, 1945 a Japanese bombing balloon was spotted by several local residents drifting over the Trinity National Forest area and slowly decending.

On July 10, township residents said ' yes ' to incorporating 738 for to 216 against.

On 15 November 2008, a local residents ' scheme was introduced for car drivers resident in the Dartford and Thurrock council areas.

On 14 July the Bastille was stormed by a Revolutionary crowd, primarily residents of the faubourg Saint-Antoine who sought to commandeer the valuable gunpowder held within the fortress.

On June 28, 1863, during the Gettysburg Campaign, the replacement covered bridge was burned by Columbia residents and the Pennsylvania state militia to prevent Confederate soldiers of the Army of Northern Virginia from entering Lancaster County.

On a post-doctoral research mission nine years later, Zinn visited the resort near Bordeaux where he interviewed residents, reviewed municipal documents, and read wartime newspaper clippings at the local library.

On March 4, 1861, residents of the county narrowly voted for secession from the Union, with 331 votes cast for and 264 against.

On September 11, 1806, an act of the Tennessee General Assembly created White County out of Smith and Jackson counties, responding to a petition signed by 155 residents of the area.

On May 15, 2007, residents voted not to reopen the county's 15 libraries, which had been closed since April 6 due to a shortage of funds.

On November 23, 1833, the few remaining Mormon residents were ordered to leave Jackson County.

On September 11, 1851, Christiana was the site of the Battle of Christiana ( also called the Christiana riot ), in which the local residents defended with firearms a fugitive slave, killing the slaveowner.

On April 27, 2011 Hackleburg suffered catastrophic damage when it was hit by an EF5 tornado – part of the April 25 – 28, 2011 tornado outbreak – which killed 18 Hackleburg residents.

On September 7, 2010 North Mobile County Middle School opened, replacing the role of Adams Middle School in Saraland, because residents outside of Saraland are no longer zoned to Adams Middle.

On September 7, 2010 North Mobile County Middle School opened, replacing the role of Adams Middle School in Saraland, because residents outside of Saraland are no longer zoned to Adams Middle.

On the afternoon of February 5, 2008, an EF4 tornado ripped a path a quarter of a mile wide through the southern and eastern edges of Atkins, killing five residents of Atkins, as well as two more in Conway County who had ties to Atkins, and injuring approximately twenty in Atkins.

On November 3, 2009, local residents voted in favor of a measure to change Palmdale's general law city status to that of a Charter City.

On February 5, 2008 residents voted on Measure C. The outcome decided that Oakhurst would not incorporate as a city.