How this effects (You)
- April 2004 NYSE: VRZN was borne
- Replacing telecommunications competitor AT&T. (Original Network since The Great Depression.)
- Fiber Optic cables and Fios.tv
Fios is offering over 360 channels, check if your state qualifies!! HIGH SPEED, HIGH DEFINITION CABLE TELEVISION!
- Spam mail servers.
- Disruption without notice.
- Initiate class-action lawsuit.
- mobile, internet, and cable...
- WIRE_LINE and international assets.
- Babe, we're moving to Hawaii (Over 700,000 lines sold!)
Sold! To to the highest bidder: FairPoint Communications for $2.72 billion...Verizon also shed its telephone directory business in 2006. In May 2009, the company spun off wire-lines...into a company that then merged with Frontier Communications in a deal valued at $8,600,000,000.
- Pulled up by their bootstraps. We're now sailing over seas in our private yachts.
- Interests in Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela
- American Tower Corp. acquired the exclusive right to lease, acquire or otherwise operate and manage many of Verizon’s wireless towers.
- $5,100,000,000 (which also included payment for sale of ~165 aliens.)
- Verizon used these funds from this sale to support a $10,400,000,000 purchase of AWS-3 spectrum licenses from an FCC auction.
- TX, FL, and CA
- MCI: $6,750,000,000
- Qwest: Nah, we'll take $7,600,000,000
- VRZN: DEAL!!!
- now serving corporate and international conglomerates!
Welcome to Verizon Business Division brought to you by the Government
- The FCC approved the deal on October 31, 2005, valuing it at $8.5 billion.
- Bullshit! ^%20
- Mr. President, all of our citizens are terror suspects. Should we leak their phone records?
- Mr. President: "Yes."
- "Thank you for calling Verizon Communications, how can I help you?"
- "I heard you was leaking my phone records and evading taxes..."
- "No sir. We do not have a warrant for that..."
"Protesters staged the National Day of Out(R)age due in part to the controversy. In 2007, Verizon stated that it fulfilled only "lawful demands" for information, but also acknowledged surrendering customer information to government agencies without court orders over 720 times between 2005 and 2007..." -wiki
- Verizon wins! (Patent infringement)
- Bell Atlantic filed in 1997
- Patents related to the conversion of IP addresses into phone numbers.
- Vonage's Technology and business friends!
- Awarded $58,000,000 in damages and future royalties.
- Vonage later lost the appeal.
- Ordered to pay Verizon $120 million. :(
- CyberTrust acquired. (Private Holder of Global InfoSec.srvc)
- And no, Verizon will not be apart of Politics. (Pro Life or Pro Choice)
- Open source? Open access.
- FCC Auction time!
- $9,400,000,000
- National and local licenses acquired
- 469,000,000 effected
- increased spectrum of fiber optic cables required
- acquire Rural Cellular Corp How much?
- $2,700,000,000 cash and assumed debt (2008)
> "That summer, Verizon announced another purchase of 'ALLTEL' for $28,100,000,000...Now reaching 13,000,000 brand new subscribers and allowing AT&T to cry about it..." -wiki
February 4 - 7 2010
"Excuse me, chairman...what about net neutrality and overcharging our customers?"
"Nah man, we don't do that..."
The chairmen of Verizon and Google agreed that should be defined and limited in August 2010.
- $77,800,000 in refunds and FCC tax penalties for 15,000,000 citizens dat.srvc, srvc.dat ... INTRODUCING THE FOURTH GENERATION!