Verizon Communications Inc. is a leading telecommunications company headquartered in New York, founded in 1983. It offers a wide array of communication, information, and entertainment products and services to consumers, businesses, and government entities globally. The Consumer segment provides various service plans, internet access, wireless devices, and residential connectivity solutions, including broadband and video services. As of the latest data, Verizon serves approximately 102 million wireless retail connections and millions of broadband and video connections. The Business segment delivers network connectivity products, voice services, unified communications, and data solutions, supporting a diverse range of enterprise needs. Verizon also focuses on innovation through strategic partnerships and initiatives, such as 5G development and venture investments in emerging technologies. With a robust wireless network and extensive service offerings, Verizon plays a crucial role in enhancing connectivity and driving technological advancement.
Origin Wireless aims to deliver smart radios for smart life by developing advanced wireless technologies for a wide range of applications, including the world's first centimeter accuracy indoor positioning or tracking, indoor monitoring, security, radio human biometrics, wireless power transfer, and 5G communications. The technologies take advantage of unavoidable but rich multi-paths in signal propagation and the physics of time-reversal that resonate with the environment to focus signal energy to specific positions through Origin’s Waveforming technology.
Origin Wireless is a m2m (machine to machine) services company providing solutions to various industries and verticals. Specializing in communication platforms for service related B2B (business to business) and B2C (business to consumer) solutions. These services may include risk assessment and monitoring, customer service communication and monitoring, integrated management and reporting services, end-user gateways and dashboards.
Urgent.ly’s Roadside is a digital roadside assistance platform that features a roadside assistance industry to the benefit of global brands, roadside assistance professionals, and consumers. Its solution delivers the quickest, safest, and most innovative roadside assistance service, products and technology by combining location-based services, real-time data, AI, and machine-to-machine communication.
XO Holdings operates through its subsidiary, XO Communications, LLC, which provides a range of telecommunications services in the United States and internationally. The company manages an integrated fiber optic network that delivers various networking solutions, including bandwidth on demand, wide area networking, and Internet access. It specializes in unified communications, offering services such as hosted PBX, voice over IP, and traditional voice services. Additionally, XO Communications provides cloud computing, colocation, and managed services, along with security solutions and wholesale services targeting telecommunications carriers and other service providers. Its clientele includes enterprise, small, and medium businesses across various sectors, such as finance, healthcare, media, and retail. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Herndon, Virginia, XO Communications operates as a subsidiary of Verizon Communications Inc.
Urgent.ly’s Roadside is a digital roadside assistance platform that features a roadside assistance industry to the benefit of global brands, roadside assistance professionals, and consumers. Its solution delivers the quickest, safest, and most innovative roadside assistance service, products and technology by combining location-based services, real-time data, AI, and machine-to-machine communication.
Verizon Communications Inc. is a major player in the telecommunications industry, offering a wide range of communication, information, and entertainment services to consumers, businesses, and governmental entities globally. The company operates America’s largest wireless network, serving over 108 million retail connections, and provides both postpaid and prepaid service plans, as well as Internet access and wireless devices, including smartphones and tablets. Its residential services include Internet, video, and voice solutions, while its business segment offers network connectivity products, Internet protocol-based voice services, and various management and data security services. Verizon is also involved in innovation through strategic partnerships and investments in emerging technology companies. Founded in 1983 and headquartered in New York, Verizon has evolved from its origins as Bell Atlantic Corporation and continues to shape the way people and organizations connect.
MCI Communications was the second-largest long-distance telecommunications service provider in the U.S. until its purchase by WorldCom. MCI was founded in 1963 and operated microwave relay stations and provided two-way radio services to truck drivers and barges. The company grew with a strategy of mergers and acquisitions, and by going public with large amounts of capital being available at its disposal. By 1990, MCI was the second-largest telecommunications company in the U.S. The company ran into difficulty as a result of U.S. regulatory laws and in 1997 the company was purchased by WorldCom in a deal worth US$ 34.7 million.
Verizon Avenue (dba Verizon Enhanced Communities)
Acquisition in 2000
Verizon Avenue Corporation is a provider of Internet, TV, and phone services to single- and multi-family residential communities, co-ops and condominiums, and multi-tenant commercial properties in the United States.