Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Verizon Communications Inc. (/ v ə ˈ r aɪ z ən / ⓘ və-RY-zən), is an American telecommunications company headquartered in New York City. [3] It is the world's second-largest telecommunications company by revenue and its mobile network is the largest wireless carrier in the United States, with 146 million subscribers as of December 31, 2024.
Before Verizon's LTE network was launched, the company operated an exclusively CDMA2000 network (the other major CDMA2000 carrier in the US being Sprint). Verizon began its initial tests for the 4G LTE network in 2008 [12] in order to move from older-generation mobile communications technologies to the emerging global standard. [58]
Ivan Seidenberg (born December 10, 1946) is the former chairman and CEO of Verizon Communications Inc. . 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.
The Telephone Company of New York was formed under franchise in 1876. The principals were Charles A. Cheever and Hilborne Roosevelt. [2] Its purpose was to rent telephone instruments to users, who were expected to provide wires to connect them, for example from factory to office.
[4] [6] Later that year, the company nearly went bankrupt and one of its investors, Frank Caufield, brought in his friend Jim Kimsey as a manufacturing consultant. Case later joined the company as a full-time marketing employee. In 1985 Quantum Computer Services, an online services company, was founded by Jim Kimsey from the remnants of Control ...
Comcast is the third-largest broadcasting and cable television company worldwide by revenue (behind China Mobile and Verizon). [9] It is the third-largest pay-TV company, the second-largest cable TV company by subscribers, and the largest home Internet service provider in the United States. In 2023, the company was ranked 51st in the Forbes ...
Timothy M. Armstrong (born December 21, 1970) is an American business executive.He was formerly the CEO of Oath Inc., then a subsidiary of Verizon Communications that served as the umbrella company of its digital content subdivisions, including AOL and Yahoo!.
Bruce Scott Gordon (born February 15, 1946) is an American business executive who spent most of his career with Verizon and currently serves as a corporate director of CBS, Northrop Grumman, and Tyco International. He was selected in June 2005 to head the NAACP, a major American civil rights organization. [1]