The company's headquarters in Philadelphia are shared with Verizon Delaware, an arrangement that has existed since the Bell System existed.

** Diamond State Telephone, the operating unit of Verizon serving Delaware

After the 2000 merger with GTE, Bell Atlantic – Delaware, Inc. became known as Verizon Delaware, Inc., and later Verizon Delaware LLC.

Carriers who make up the industry LLC creating the service include Alltel ( now absorbed by Verizon Wireless ), AT & T, Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile.

The city's downtown is home to the Arkansas Diamonds of the Indoor Football League and formerly home to the Arkansas RimRockers of the NBA D-League ( both of which play at Verizon Arena ).

Wired telephone numbers working out of the Verizon California ( formerly GTE California and prior to that Contel ) Big Pine central office follow the format ( 760 ) 938-xxxx.

Wireless telephony services are provided by ATT Mobile, formerly Cingular, ( GSM850 / GSM1900 ), T-Mobile ( GSM1900 ), AllTel, formerly First Cellular of Southern Illinois, ( now CDMA-only although legacy GSM850 service still operates ), Verizon ( CDMA ), Nextel Partners ( iDEN ), and Sprint PCS ( CDMA ).

Verizon Communications, which technically keeps its world headquarters in New York City, has located operations of its major business units in buildings that were formerly AT & T's world headquarters.

AT & T abandoned its 800 MHz air-ground offering in 2005, and Verizon AIRFONE ( formerly GTE Airfone ) is scheduled for decommissioning in late 2008, although the FCC has re-auctioned Verizon's spectrum ( see below ).

Today, UUNET is an internal brand of Verizon Business ( formerly MCI ).

Large telecommunications providers such as AT & T, Embarq ( formerly Sprint ), Verizon and other large to medium conferencing service providers maintain a dominant position in the conferencing niche ; servicing many of the World's biggest brands.

Both live tracks were recorded on the 2010 spring tour at the Verizon Theatre at Grand Prairie, formerly Nokia Theater, in Grand Prairie, Texas.

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.

The Verizon Center, formerly known as the MCI Center, is a sports and entertainment arena in Washington, D. C.

The Verizon Center is home to the Washington Wizards of the National Basketball Association, Washington Capitals of the National Hockey League, the Georgetown University men's basketball team, the Washington Mystics of the Women's National Basketball Association, and was formerly the home of the Washington Power of the National Lacrosse League from 2001 to 2002.

A major technology center, the Eastside is home to many large high-tech companies, mainly in the software and wireless industries, including Microsoft, T-Mobile USA, Nintendo of America, AT & T Mobility ( formerly Cingular ), the former Western Wireless ( now part of Verizon Wireless ), Vulcan Ventures, Expedia, Inc., 180 Solutions and InfoSpace.

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.

* Verizon Wireless Music Center ( Indiana ), an outdoor music venue in Noblesville, Indiana, formerly known as Deer Creek Music Center

Verizon Arena ( formerly known as the Alltel Arena ) is an 18, 000-seat multi-purpose arena in North Little Rock, Arkansas, directly across the Arkansas River from downtown Little Rock.

On December 18, 2006, York faced " Bone Crusher " Fred Sampson in the opening match for World Wrestling Entertainment's ( formerly the WWF ) Raw at the Verizon Center in Washington DC.

Verizon Pennsylvania, Inc., formerly traded as Bell of Pennsylvania, is the Bell Operating Company serving most of Pennsylvania.

The Houston Theater District, in north downtown, is home to Houston's eight performing arts organizations and includes the Alley Theatre, Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, Wortham Center, the Verizon Wireless Theater ( formerly Aerial Theater ), and Jones Hall, home of the Houston Symphony Orchestra.

Britt Harris, formerly of Verizon Investment Management, joined Bridgewater Associates as co-chief executive in November 2004 but left six months later.

Arlington Independent Media ( AIM ), formerly Arlington Community Television, is a non-profit membership organization providing television production training workshops and professional production facilities, as well as the Public, educational, and government access ( PEG ) cable tv channel on Comcast channel 69, Verizon FIOS channel 38 in Arlington County, Virginia, USA.

Current clients include Bank of America, Boeing Travel Group, eBay, General Electric, IBM, Intel Corporation, Kraft Foods, Marriott International Inc., McDonald ’ s Corporation, Microsoft, Quantum, State Farm Insurance, U. S. Army and Verizon.

Saunders Karp had received capital commitments from institutional investors including AT & T, the General Electric Pension Trust, Goldman Sachs Private Equity Group, HarbourVest Partners, JP Morgan Fleming Asset Management, New York State Common Retirement Fund and Verizon, among others.

Water is provided by both the IID the Myoma Dunes Water Company and Telephone service is by Verizon.

The GTE Corporation, which had been the largest independent telephone company in the United States until its merger with Bell Atlantic to form Verizon Communications in 2000, originated when John F. O ' Connell, Sigurd L Odegard and John A. Pratt acquired the Richland Center Telephone Company in 1918.

In 1998, a 45 % stake of the state-owned Puerto Rico Telephone Company ( PRTC ) was sold to a consortium led by GTE ( now Verizon ) and Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, with another stake set aside to benefit allof the company's employees.

He currently serves on the board of directors of the Puerto Rico Telephone Company and Verizon.

During the 1980s building boom, Las Colinas became a popular location for relocating companies and office developers, attracting many corporations — including the global headquarters of four Fortune 500 companies and offices of more than 30 others, such as Exxon Mobil Corporation, GTE Telephone ( now Verizon ), Kimberly-Clark and Associates Corp.

For many years New York Telephone ( now a unit of Verizon ) used 2-1-1 as an automated credit request number for disconnected or mis-dialed calls.

New England Telephone and Telegraph lasted only a year as a separate entity, from 1878 to 1879, and had no direct relationship with the later company of the same name, which after the breakup of the Bell System in 1984 became part of the NYNEX Corporation, now part of Verizon.

The Barclay-Vesey Telephone Building, also known as the Verizon Building

* The New York Telephone Company Building, aka the Barclay-Vesey Building and now the Verizon Building ( 1922 – 26 ) and badly damaged in the September 11, 2001 attacks.

His telecommunications career began more than 40 years ago when he joined New York Telephone, one of Verizon ’ s predecessor companies, as a cable splicer ’ s assistant.

* Frederic Salerno, President of Verizon Telephone Company

Prior to its transformation into Verizon, Bell Atlantic had merged with another Regional Bell Operating Company, NYNEX, in 1997

Prior to its transformation into Verizon, Bell Atlantic had merged with another Regional Bell Operating Company, NYNEX, in 1997

The former Hecht Company main building, now across from the Verizon Center, was extensively renovated and reopened in 2003 as Terrell Place, honoring Mary Church Terrell's role in desegregating that and other public accommodations in Washington.

Team Penske currently fields three cars, the # 3 Shell Oil Company Dallara / Chevrolet driven by Hélio Castroneves, the # 2 IZOD Dallara / Chevrolet driven by Ryan Briscoe, and the # 12 Verizon Wireless Dallara / Chevrolet driven by Will Power.